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Day 30: How to Register for the Terraform Associate (004) Exam — and What to Expect on Test Day
Day 28 was the first practice exam. Day 29 was exams 3 and 4 with the Exam-mode-first protocol. Day...
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Day 29: Take the Exam First, Review Later: How to Actually Use Bryan Krausen's Practice Tests
Day 28 was the first two practice exams and the study log that came out of them. Day 29 was exams 3...
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Day 28: How I Prepared for the Terraform Associate Exam with Practice Exams
Days 9 through 27 built infrastructure: modules, remote state, multi-region failover, the works. Day...
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Day 27: Building a Multi-Region, Fault-Tolerant 3-Tier Infrastructure with AWS and Terraform
Day 26 stood up a single-region scalable web app: ALB → ASG → EC2, with CloudWatch closing the scali...
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Day 26: Building a Scalable Web Application with Terraform, EC2, and Auto Scaling
Day 25 deployed a static site on S3 + CloudFront. Day 26 moves up the stack to a dynamic web applica...
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Day 25: Deploying a Static Website on AWS S3 with Terraform
The certification prep of Days 23–24 is done. Day 25 is the first full hands-on project: a productio...
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Day 24: Final Exam Preparation: Terraform Associate (004) Practice and Tips
Day 23 built the reference cheat sheet. Day 24 is the simulation layer: exam-style practice question...
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Day 23: Terraform Associate (004) Exam — Complete Cheat Sheet
Day 23 shifts to certification prep. This post is a domain-by-domain reference covering every publis...
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Day 22: Putting It All Together: Application and Infrastructure Workflows with Terraform
Day 20 covered the application code deployment workflow. Day 21 covered the infrastructure code depl...
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Day 21: A Workflow for Deploying Infrastructure Code with Terraform
Day 20 established the application code deployment workflow — Docker image, smoke tests, approval ga...
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Day 20: A Workflow for Deploying Application Code with Terraform
Day 19 connected the FastAPI stack to HCP Terraform and established how teams manage infrastructure....
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Day 19: Adopting Infrastructure as Code in Your Team — and HCP Terraform
Days 1–18 were one engineer, one AWS account, and a FastAPI app that grew from a single EC2 instance...
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Day 18: Automated Testing of Terraform Infrastructure
Day 17 established the manual testing workflow. Day 18 automates it: a full testing pyramid for the...
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Day 17: Manual Testing of Terraform Infrastructure
Day 16 added CI/CD and Terratest. Day 17 steps back: what is the manual testing workflow that Terrat...
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Day 16: Creating Production-Grade Infrastructure with Terraform
Seven days of building the FastAPI stack. Today: measure it against the production-grade checklist,...
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Day 15: Deploying the FastAPI App on EKS with Terraform — Multiple Providers in Practice
Day 14 deployed the same module to two regions using provider aliases. Day 15 goes further: two diff...
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Day 14: Getting Started with Multiple Providers in Terraform
The FastAPI app is getting users in Europe. Latency from `us-east-1` is noticeable. Time to deploy a...
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Day 13: How to Handle Sensitive Data Securely in Terraform
The FastAPI app needs a database. The first instinct is to put the password in a Terraform variable....
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Day 12: Mastering Zero-Downtime Deployments with Terraform
The FastAPI app from Day 9 is running in production. You have a new version to ship. What happens wh...
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Day 11: Conditional Infrastructure: Making Your FastAPI Deployment Environment-Aware
Day 10 introduced conditionals. Day 11 goes deeper — object types, data blocks, built-in functions,...
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Day 10: Mastering Loops and Conditionals in Terraform
Dynamic blocks, and conditionals in Terraform — the four tools that turn rigid infrastructure config...
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Day 9 - II : IDeploying a Real FastAPI App on AWS with Terraform Modules
The module from Day 9 runs a toy Python HTTP server. Let's replace it with a real FastAPI backend —...
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Day 9 - I : Advanced Terraform Modules: Versioning and Multi-Environment Deployment
Day 8 got modules working. Day 9 is about making them safe to change — versioning a reusable web-app...
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Day 8: Building Reusable Infrastructure with Terraform Modules
I've been writing the same ALB, ASG, and security group blocks since Day 4. Every time I set up a ne...
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Day 7: Workspaces vs File Layouts: I Tried Both. Here's What I Think.
Today was fully hands-on — setting up isolated environments using both approaches, then comparing th...
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Day 6: How to Securely Store and Manage Terraform State Files
Day 5 covered what state is and how to move it off your laptop into S3. Day 6 goes deeper — actually...
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Day 5: Terraform State and Scaling Infrastructure
Today was a big shift. The first four days were mostly about getting things deployed — servers, load...
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Day 4: Deploying a Highly Available Web App on AWS Using Terraform
In this post, I'll walk through how I rebuilt it the right way using Terraform — variables, an Auto...
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Day 3: Inside Terraform: How It Actually Works Under the Hood
Most Terraform tutorials jump straight to writing `.tf` files and running `terraform apply`. But if...
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Day 2: Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up Terraform, AWS CLI, and Your AWS Environment
Before you can start managing cloud infrastructure with Terraform, you need to get your local enviro...
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Day 1: What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Why It Matters
If you've ever manually clicked through a cloud console to spin up servers, configure networking, or...
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From Practice to Certification: My Terraform Certification Journey Begins
I've been working with Terraform for a while, and now it's time to make it official. This blog serie...
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Cloud & AWS
CI/CD for Static Sites: Deploy to AWS S3 + CloudFront with Docker, Terraform, and GitHub Actions
A step-by-step guide to automating static site deployments using Docker, Terraform, and GitHub Actio...
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DevOps
Docker for PHP Developers: From Zero to Production
A hands-on guide to containerizing PHP applications with Docker — covering Dockerfiles, multi-stage...
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Web Development
Building a RESTful API with Laravel: A Complete Guide
A deep dive into building production-ready RESTful APIs with Laravel — covering project setup, resou...
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Cloud & AWS
Getting Started with AWS Lambda and PHP
Everything you need to know about running PHP on AWS Lambda with Bref — from local setup and serverl...
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Apr 26, 2026