Terraform

User preferences and memory live in ~/Clawic/data/terraform/ (see setup.md on first use, memory-template.md for the file format). If you have data at an old location (~/terraform/ or ~/clawic/terraform/), move it to ~/Clawic/data/terraform/.

When To Use

• Writing or reviewing HCL: resource design, count vs for_each, module boundaries, variable types and validation
• Debugging plan/apply failures, permanent diffs, cycles, unknown-at-plan errors, stuck locks, drift
• Refactoring live infrastructure: renames, module extraction, imports, splitting or merging state
• Pinning providers, upgrading the CLI or a provider major version, moving between Terraform and OpenTofu
• Designing backends, environment layout, and CI plan/apply gates with policy, tests, and drift detection
• Recovering after damage: lost or corrupted state, wrong state rm, unintended destroy, interrupted apply
• Not for choosing which cloud resources to build (→ aws, gcp, azure) or configuring what runs inside them (→ ansible)

Quick Reference