Design and manage Terraform infrastructure at scale

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What it does

Design Terraform modules with state + security + CI/CD patterns

Best for

Structuring Terraform projects with reproducible module layouts, multi-environment state management, and policy enforcement instead of ad-hoc scripts

Inputs

· infrastructure target
· module scope
· policy requirements

Outputs

· Terraform module scaffolding
· state management strategy
· policy-as-code rules
· drift detection config

Requires

· terraform CLI
· policy-as-code framework (Sentinel, OPA)
· CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
· state backend (S3, Terraform Cloud, etc.)

Preconditions

Terraform 1.0+ installed; cloud provider account (AWS, GCP, Azure); version control repo initialized

Failure modes

State lock contention in shared backend; drift detection runs but remediation is manual and error-prone; policy enforcement fails on multi-workspace deployments

Trust signals

· Covers mono-repo vs multi-repo decision
· Workspaces + policy-as-code + drift detection
· CI/CD plan/apply workflows
· v2.9.0 stable release