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Brendan Thompson

solutions engineer at ScalrBrendan Thompson is a solutions engineer at Scalr, specializing in Terraform and cloud infrastructure.

Articles by Brendan Thompson

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AzureRM Terraform Provider Overview

AzureRM Terraform provider guide: core resources, auth setup, best practices for deploying to Azure with Terraform.
Brendan ThompsonMay 26, 2025
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Kubernetes Terraform Provider

Learn about the k8s provider
Brendan ThompsonNovember 13, 2024
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OpenTofu Language Guide

Learn about OpenTofu in part one of this guide
Brendan ThompsonMarch 5, 2024
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Getting Started with the Azure Terraform Export Tool

Learn all about the Azure Terraform Export Tool and how to use it.
Brendan ThompsonJanuary 11, 2024
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Deploying your infrastructure with Scalr and GitHub Actions

A tutorial explaining how to use GitHub Actions and Scalr together
Brendan ThompsonJanuary 8, 2024
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Getting Started with Terraform Providers

Learn how to use Providers
Brendan ThompsonJanuary 2, 2024
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Getting Started with the Google Cloud Terraform Provider

everything about the Google provider for Terraform
Brendan ThompsonJanuary 1, 2024
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Understand Conditional Statements in Terraform in 5 minutes

Learn how to use conditional statements in 5 minutes
Brendan ThompsonOctober 6, 2023
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The 4 Most Useful Terraform Functions

Learn about Brendan's favourite functions
Brendan ThompsonJuly 31, 2023
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Terraform Check - New Terraform Feature

Learn all about the new Terraform Check feature
Brendan ThompsonJune 22, 2023
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Top 5 Best Practices for Terraform

5 tips to make you a better Terraform developer
Brendan ThompsonMarch 31, 2023
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Updating Terraform State, with Great Power comes Great Responsibility

Understand how to work with Terraform state more effectively.
Brendan ThompsonFebruary 14, 2023
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Terraform Resource Dependencies Explained

The power of TF is its ability to have dependencies between resources, and even data sources, learn how to use them.
Brendan ThompsonJanuary 12, 2023
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Dynamic Expressions in Terraform: Some Real-World Examples

In Terraform, an expression refers to or computes values within configurations.
Brendan ThompsonNovember 25, 2022
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Terraform Optionals On Complex Input Variables

Learn how to use the Terraform optional object type attribute in complex input variables.
Brendan ThompsonOctober 20, 2022
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Getting Started with Terraform Modules

Learn about different ways of storing, naming and structuring your Terraform modules.
Brendan ThompsonAugust 19, 2022
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The Three Stages of Terraform's Lifecycle Meta Argument

Customize the general lifecycle for Terraform resources.
Brendan ThompsonAugust 5, 2022
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Terraform v1.0 Features I Love

The new features Terraform released since the release of v1 which are extremely exciting.
Brendan ThompsonJuly 8, 2022
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Terraform Configuration Ingestion

Avoid duplicate Terraform code using Terraform variable files, modules or yaml/json configuration files.
Brendan ThompsonMay 2, 2022
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Why Use A Remote Operations Backend Over A Standard Backend

Why you should select a remote operations backend such as Scalr or Terraform Cloud over a standard backend.
Brendan ThompsonMarch 24, 2022
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How To Use Terraform Remote Backends

A comprehensive guide to Terraform remote backends: configuration, backup strategies, state migration, and update operations.
Brendan ThompsonJanuary 28, 2022