Zachary Loeber's Blog

Just another tool making, complexity eating, infrastructure and workload automating, DevOps soldier.

Semi Auto Importing Terraform State

On more than one occasion I’ve longed for the mean’s to automatically import terraform state. But this is a feature I know will likely never be added for a number of very good reasons. In some cases it is possible to use only a plan file to automate the generation of terraform import blocks though. Here is how it can be done.

Pre-Cache Terraform Provider Plugins

2025-03-19 3 min read Devops Terraform Docker Zachary Loeber

Pre-caching terraform providers in your CICD pipeline images is awesome but hardly anyone does it. I’ve created a project that makes this task easier than ever.

2021 - IT Industry Predictions

2020-12-15 9 min read Devops Kubernetes Zachary Loeber

Wild speculations on hot trends to follow in information technology for 2021 and beyond.

The Declarative Mindset

2020-07-11 10 min read Devops Zachary Loeber

I’m going to wax poetic on the virtues of declarative thinking within the IT industry. Along the way we will go over some definitions and introduce the pseudo-declarative manifest and how it can add value to a project.