Setting Deployment Environments' Terraform State Backends with Environment Variables
3 minute read Published: Author: Colan Schwartz
Terraform is an essential tool for automating cloud-computing infrastructure and storing it in code (IaC). While there are several ways to navigate between deployment environments (e.g. Dev, Staging & Prod), I’d like to talk about how this can be done with environment variables, and explain why it can’t be done more naturally with Terraform variables.