terraform-skill

Operational traps for Terraform provisioners, multi-environment isolation, and zero-to-deployment reliability. Covers provisioner timing races, SSH connection conflicts, DNS record duplication, volume permissions, database bootstrap gaps, snapshot cross-contamination, Cloudflare credential format errors, hardcoded domains in Caddyfiles/compose, and init-data-only-on-first-boot pitfalls. Activate when writing null_resource provisioners, creating multi-environment Terraform setups, debugging containers that are Restarting/unhealthy after terraform apply, setting up fresh instances with cloud-init, or any IaC code that SSHs into remote hosts. Also activate when the user mentions terraform plan/apply errors, provisioner failures, infrastructure drift, TLS certificate errors, or Caddy/gateway configuration.