· palaniappan p · 4 min read
Migrate from Terraform to OpenTofu: What AWS Teams Need to Know
Terraform to OpenTofu migration: compatibility, risks, tools, and production deployment patterns for AWS infrastructure.
Tag: infrastructure-as-code
· Palaniappan P · 8 min readAWS Environment Parity: Why Dev/Staging/Prod Drift Costs More Than It Saves
When dev works but production fails, it's almost always an environment parity problem. This guide covers building consistent environments across dev, staging, and prod—and the cost of not doing it.
· Palaniappan P · 9 min readAWS Infrastructure Drift Detection: How to Find and Fix Config Drift Before It Breaks Production
Infrastructure drift—when your actual AWS resources differ from what your IaC declares—causes silent failures and makes disaster recovery impossible. Learn how to detect drift systematically and fix it before it breaks production.
· Palaniappan P · 7 min readAWS CloudFormation Best Practices for Production Infrastructure
A practical guide to CloudFormation for production — stack organization, cross-stack references, drift detection, change sets, rollback strategies, and the practices that make infrastructure deployments safe and repeatable.
- · Palaniappan P · 9 min read
Terraform vs AWS CDK: Infrastructure as Code Decision Guide
A practical comparison of Terraform and AWS CDK for infrastructure as code — language support, state management, multi-cloud vs AWS-native trade-offs, and when to choose each.