Writing and playing with custom Terraform Providers

I’ve been digging deeper on Terraform. It’s something I’ve tinkered with in the past, but I’ve not really sat down to really use it in anger and try and tie a large project together.

So, I picked something that I recently was doing manually: the configuration of a demo of Vault with the GCP backend. Right now I was doing most of the steps for that manually, and I wanted to automate the entire process, and have a fully reproducible demo environment created in GCP. That’s a larger project I’m going to blog about later, but for now I’m going to concentrate on one thing that came up that led me down a rabbit whole of creating a provider.