Terraform Practices to Enable Infrastructure Scaling

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Recommends locking module, provider and Terraform versions to avoid unexpected breaking changes and using community modules with download-count checks (Anton Babenko examples) instead of reinventing wheels. Insists on tagging everything and using S3 backend with DynamoDB state locking for remote state. Advises one-repo layout (live + modules) split by team/project/provider/region to keep small state files, warns about workspaces and suggests a wrapper. Pushes remote execution and PR automation with Atlantis, plus pre-merge checks: fmt, TFLint, CI, Super Linter and drift reporting.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
2. 3:08Quick wins for Terraform scaling
3. 8:50Second nature practices in Terraform
4. 13:24File structure and code organization
5. 15:54Long haul infrastructure planning
6. 23:36Terraform execution best practices
7. 25:42Practices enforcement for scaling
8. 28:10Key takeaways and conclusion

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