3 years ago

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If you’re reading this, chances are you are in DevOps (or some type of engineering) and you are wondering: “Why on earth do I care about cloud cost optimization? That’s not my job, I’m not in finance, right?” If you are interested in defining a new role, automating your newfound responsibility, and implementing a process for cloud cost optimization with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud, read on.

The tool is called Tint and you can visit this blog post and its GitHub repository to learn how to use it.

In this first snippet, you will see some basic updates of Terraform code with variables and logic to get started.

Or you can use other similar methods via Feature Flags and conditional expressions in Terraform to control applied functionality.