1 year ago

https://www.padok.fr/ https://www.padok.fr/en/blog https://www.padok.fr/en/blog/tag/devops https://www.padok.fr/en/blog/terraform-refactoring-tfautomv Refactoring keeps technical debt in check

When these two models drift — when a team's mental model differs from their actual code — we call this technical debt.

So when the mental model evolves, which is only natural, maintainers should refactor the codebase so that both models stay in sync.

Let's say you have a single VM already provisioned with Terraform: resource "aws_instance""single"{ ami = "ami-09e513e9eacab10c1" # Ubuntu 22.04 instance_type = "t3.large"}