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Ryan Fee

director of platform engineering at Scalr

Ryan Fee is the director of platform engineering at Scalr, with over 15 years of experience improving infrastructure experiences at companies large and small.

104 articles

Articles

48 most recent of 104
  1. Terraform Module Supply Chain Attacks: Tag Mutation, Pwn Requests, and How to Pin SafelyIaC Security: Securing Your Terraform and OpenTofu Infrastructure
  2. Malicious Terraform Providers: Supply Chain Risks and How to Verify What You InstallIaC Security: Securing Your Terraform and OpenTofu Infrastructure
  3. Terraform Supply Chain Attacks: Risks, Real Incidents, and How to Defend Against ThemIaC Security: Securing Your Terraform and OpenTofu Infrastructure
  4. Terraform Wiz: How to Scan, Secure, and Enforce Policy on Your IaCIaC Security: Securing Your Terraform and OpenTofu Infrastructure
  5. How to Find Resources Not Managed by Terraform or OpenTofuTerraform Drift Detection Tools and Management: A Comprehensive Guide
  6. Can AI Agents Change Infrastructure and Stay Compliant?Infrastructure as Code With AI Coding Agents: A Practical Primer
  7. How to Review AI-Generated Terraform CodeInfrastructure as Code With AI Coding Agents: A Practical Primer
  8. How to Export State from Terraform CloudHow to Migrate Off Terraform Cloud: A Platform Engineer's Decision Guide (2026)
  9. Terraform Observability: Metrics, Logs, and Audit Trails ExplainedTerraform Drift Detection Tools and Management: A Comprehensive Guide
  10. How to Update State in a Remote BackendTerraform State & Backends: The Complete Guide
  11. Infrastructure as Code With AI Coding Agents: A Practical PrimerGuide
  12. Terraform Testing: terraform test, tofu test, TerratestCI/CD and GitOps for Terraform & OpenTofu
  13. What Is an OpenTofu Management Platform?What is OpenTofu?
  14. Secrets in Terraform State: Why They Leak, and the FixIaC Security: Securing Your Terraform and OpenTofu Infrastructure
  15. Bring Your Own Key (BYOK): Customer-Managed Encryption for Terraform PlatformsIaC Security: Securing Your Terraform and OpenTofu Infrastructure
  16. Terraform State Storage: How to Bring Your Own S3, GCS, or Azure BucketArticle
  17. Custom Hooks for Terraform and OpenTofu: Pre-Plan, Post-Apply, and the Hooks RegistryCI/CD and GitOps for Terraform & OpenTofu
  18. Host Your Own Terraform Providers in ScalrArticle
  19. Pull OpenTofu Modules Directly from OCI Registries in ScalrArticle
  20. OpenTofu + Atlantis vs a Managed Platform: When Self-Hosting Costs MoreSelecting a Terraform Cloud Alternative (2026 Guide)
  21. HashiCorp GPG Key Expired: Fixing Terraform Download ErrorsTerraform State & Backends: The Complete Guide
  22. How to Use a MCP Server with Terraform: 6 Prompts for Infrastructure TeamsArticle
  23. Selecting a Terraform Cloud Alternative (2026 Guide)Guide
  24. Terraform Modules ExplainedGuide
  25. Stop Troubleshooting Terraform: How Scalr AI Helps Platform TeamsTerraform Troubleshooting, Optimization and Error Resolution
  26. Terraform Drift Detection Tools and Management: A Comprehensive GuideGuide
  27. Using Checkov with Terraform - Integrations, Features, ExamplesIaC Security: Securing Your Terraform and OpenTofu Infrastructure
  28. What Are Terraform TACOs?Guide
  29. What is Terraform?Guide
  30. Terraform Registry: Public vs Private Module Registries ExplainedTerraform Modules Explained
  31. New Feature: Private Module Registry NamespacesTerraform Modules Explained
  32. Terraform Outputs: How to with ExamplesThe Developer's Guide to HCL
  33. Terraform Providers: Complete Configuration and Management GuideGuide
  34. Terraform State Files Best PracticesTerraform State & Backends: The Complete Guide
  35. Using the AWS S3 Backend Block in TerraformTerraform State & Backends: The Complete Guide
  36. Using the AzureRM Backend Block in TerraformTerraform State & Backends: The Complete Guide
  37. Using the GCS Backend Block in TerraformTerraform State & Backends: The Complete Guide
  38. Understanding the Terraform ignore_changes Lifecycle BlockThe Developer's Guide to HCL
  39. Everything you need to know about using Terraform or OpenTofu with SlackCI/CD and GitOps for Terraform & OpenTofu
  40. Scalr's MCP Server: The AI Assistant That Does the Heavy LiftingArticle
  41. Introducing Scalr MetricsArticle
  42. November 2025 Release NotesArticle
  43. New Scalr Feature: Control TowerArticle
  44. Scalr Product Updates - August 2025Article
  45. Announcing a Simpler, More Transparent Pricing ModelHCP Terraform Free Tier in 2026: What Survived the EOL
  46. What are Terraform Lock FilesTerraform Providers: Complete Configuration and Management Guide
  47. Scalr Product Updates - July 2025Article
  48. Dynamic Backend Blocks with OpenTofuTerraform State & Backends: The Complete Guide