Using Terraform with AWS

[@WeatherLockz-dv6sd]

amazing video!

[@JudgeFredd]

Great information !

[@dus10dnd]

Can we have some final decision on Stanza versus Block? I have witnessed a few more mentions of "Stanza" with respect to Terraform than I generally have seen. It usually seemed limited to folks that first used Consul or Vault.

[@NicJackson]

Personally I use the two interchangeably, traditionally all HCL blocks such as resources were referred to as "Stanza", this was not limited to Terraform but covered all tools that used HCL. I have just checked, it seems that we do not use the term stanza from the current documentation. I am guessing this is to simplify the language and use a term more commonly used with code. It was Terraform that first introduced me to the term Stanza when I started using it almost 10 years ago, the phrase has just stuck. Sorry for any confusion, I will try to stick to the word "Block" for future videos.

[@dus10dnd]

@@NicJackson You’re fine, it was just an observation. I really appreciate the background!

[@NicJackson]

@@dus10dnd I appreciate you calling this out, it makes things clearer for other viewers. Hope things were useful.

[@WeatherLockz-dv6sd]

why didn't you just do aws configure in the terminal and then proceed from there, is there a specific reason why you didnt do this or is it just another method?

[@HashiCorp]

Hey @WeaterLockz-dv6sd , thank you for asking, this is indeed another method to safely inject credentials into your shell with. Note that there’s also a pattern available for retrieving and injecting temporary credentials. For more details, visit: developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-docs/workspaces/dynamic-provider-credentials