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Post-Mortem: OpenTaco using code from OTF without attribution

Post-Mortem: OpenTaco using code from OTF without attribution

On September 24, 2025 we introduced Project OpenTaco in a reddit post (now removed by moderators). Then leg100, the creator of OTF - a project that we highly respect and look up to - pointed out in the comments that some of the OpenTaco code was copied from OTF. This

How we hired Soham Parekh

Soham Parekh’s first day at Digger was Monday, June 30. He applied to our Founding Engineer role; his profile clearly stood out. Little did we know at the time what was hiding behind his resume! For those of you who don’t know - Soham turned out to be

Setting Up AWS Bedrock with Terraform: A Comprehensive Guide

Setting Up AWS Bedrock with Terraform: A Comprehensive Guide

Introduction AWS Bedrock is Amazon's fully managed service that makes foundation models from leading AI companies accessible via an API. For organizations looking to integrate generative AI capabilities into their applications, AWS Bedrock provides a streamlined path to leverage powerful AI models. When combined with Terraform, an Infrastructure

How to manage Terragrunt Monorepos efficiently?

How to manage Terragrunt Monorepos efficiently?

When working with large monorepos, managing Terragrunt plans can become overwhelming. Each project generating a comment in the pull request can result in a flood of information, making it challenging to track changes effectively. This is where OpenTaco's feature to group plans by the source module comes in

Automatically Generating Terraform Projects with OpenTaco’s Generate Projects Feature

Automatically Generating Terraform Projects with OpenTaco’s Generate Projects Feature

Developers looking for efficiency and automation to simplify project setup and deployment is (supposed to be) a “need” we already know about. Recognizing this need, we introduced a a functionality in OpenTaco, tailored to enhance project initialization and setup for Terraform projects. This functionality, known as generate_projects, emerged from

Top self-hosted runner solutions for GitHub Actions.

Top self-hosted runner solutions for GitHub Actions.

While talking to users using Digger in GitHub Actions, we see a lot of compliance heavy enterprises relying on Self Hosted runners. We decided to compile a list of available solutions out there, to help present the options available before a decision is made. Let's dive in: Actions

Lessons from launching our devtool 14 times on product hunt

Lessons from launching our devtool 14 times on product hunt

We wanted to document learnings from launching our devtool (and multiple acquisition products) over 14 times on Product Hunt, and that is what this article seeks to do. We have learned a ton in that period (May 2022 - Jan 2024) and also pivoted 4 times in the process. This

DIY Terraform Cloud, Part 1 - The Game Plan

DIY Terraform Cloud, Part 1 - The Game Plan

What would it take to migrate away from Terraform Cloud? After Hashicorp moved to resource-based pricing and BSL license last year, this question is on the roadmaps of many infrastructure teams. This article outlines the scope of such a migration. In this article I will describe the main aspects of

How Open ID Connect works in GitHub Actions (illustrated)

How Open ID Connect works in GitHub Actions (illustrated)

I first learned about Open ID Connect (OIDC) while working on digger, an IaC automation tool. The main component of Digger is a cli which integrates directly in your CI system of choice. The first time we approached implementing oidc we were lazy and decided to leverage the github action

OpenTofu Commands Guide

OpenTofu Commands Guide

Introduction OpenTofu offers a versatile command-line interface for managing your infrastructure. With a diverse range of commands, you can initiate, validate, and manipulate configurations with ease. Command Basics: Run the tofu command by itself to get a list of available commands and their purposes. The general structure is: tofu [global

How to Deploy an s3 bucket using Terraform via GitHub Actions in 6 steps

How to Deploy an s3 bucket using Terraform via GitHub Actions in 6 steps

Deploying an Amazon S3 bucket using Terraform via GitHub Actions allows you to automate your infrastructure as code process. Here's a step-by-step tutorial: 1. Setting up your Terraform Configuration main.tf: provider "aws" { region = "us-west-1" version = "~> 3.0" } resource "aws_

OpenTofu - Alpha release.

OpenTofu - Alpha release.

Today, after weeks of work, is OpenTofu's alpha release! What you can expect with OpenTofu v1.6.0-alpha1 As mentioned in the v1.6.0 alpha release note, the release: - is a drop-in replacement, so you can take it for a spin in your existing projects -

Why does the BSL license get so much hate from developers?

Why does the BSL license get so much hate from developers?

Let’s start with a bit of history. According to Maria DB, the creators of the Business Source License, ”BSL is a new alternative to closed source or open core licensing models. Under BSL, the source code is always publicly available. Non-production use of the code is always free, and

How to run Terraform within your CI/CD pipeline - Resource Hub

How to run Terraform within your CI/CD pipeline - Resource Hub

The following resources have been collated to help IaC users get a better understanding of how Infrastructure as Code can be run within their CI/CD system of choice. Do have a read! Circle CI 1. How to run Terraform from Circle CI by Anton Putra 2. Tom Hipwell @ Bulb

GitHub PR Automation for Terraform - Challenges

Challenges Encountered in PR driven workflows for Terraform Collaboration

Terraform has gained significant popularity over the last few years. With increased adoption amongst SRE, platform and DevOps practioners, many teams have encountered challenges in setting up effective PR driven workflows for Terraform collaboration. In this article, we will explore some of the pain points that arise during collaboration with

How to implement Terraform automation within GitHub Actions for your B2B SaaS tool

We all start using terraform as a CLI tool on our local machine to bootstrap our initial infrastructure. We of course manage the tf state somewhere in a bucket within our cloud account. This works great as a small team with limited infrastructure needs. But as our company grows and

Migrating Terraform Backend to Amazon S3 and DynamoDB: A Guide

Terraform’s recent move to the resources under management pricing model has frustrated a lot of users. As one user on this reddit thread remarked: The pricing on Terraform literally just jumped to almost same as we are paying for the AWS resources it manages.We’re on the free

Introducing Digger v4.0

Launching Digger Pro & a brief note on our iterative journey so far We have been building Digger for over 2 years with multiple iterations in between. Today we are launching Digger v4.0 - An Open Source GitOps tool for Terraform. A brief history of our journey: 🚜 Digger Classic

Can GitHub actions be used as a CI/CD for Terraform?

We had THE EXACT same question. We went and asked the r/terraform community this: ”Why are people using Terraform Cloud? I may be missing something, but why can't terraform just be run in GitHub Actions? I feel that for 99% of companies, a terraform runner fundamentally only

The case for 'Headless Terraform IDP'

There is a ton of conjecture on who should write the Terraform, and also on the fact that nobody should write it. The problem seems to be time, more specifically, time lost due to blockage of “devs” by “ops” and vice versa. As Leon Wright rightly (see what I did

Digger is now in Golang!

As you may know by now, Digger is a Github Action that runs Terraform plan and apply with PR-level locks. The idea is that terraform jobs run natively in your Github Actions - no need to share sensitive data with another CI system. There's no need to deploy

Atlantis workflow without a backend?

Last week we asked a question on r/terraform and got an overwhelming response. A lot of people recommended Atlantis as a way to run terraform plan and apply jobs in your CI. It is used by many great teams (Lyft for example) - however, we see the following issues:

Is S3 + Dynamo enough for terraform state?

What is Terraform ? Terraform is the most popular Infrastructure-as-code tool today. We rely on terraform to define our infrastructure and provision the resources needed to bring up our environments online. We also rely on it to manage changes to our infrastructure (terraform plan - terraform apply cycle). Why does Terraform