Terraform Beyond CRUD: Bringing Day-2 Operations into Code

Description

Terraform is widely used for provisioning infrastructure, but teams still face challenges with unmanaged resources and Day-2 operations that often live outside Terraform. Manual scripts, external tools, and ad-hoc fixes usually fill the gap. With the introduction of Terraform Search and Terraform Actions, these challenges can now be addressed directly in Terraform. Terraform Search helps you discover and adopt existing resources into code, while Terraform Actions let you automate operational tasks like cache invalidation or instance restarts as part of your workflow. In this session, I’ll provide a hands-on demo showing how these features work in practice, from writing simple queries to invoking actions tied to resource lifecycle events. Attendees will see real examples, learn best practices, and understand the limitations to watch for. By the end, you’ll have the knowledge to start applying Search and Actions in your own projects to bring Day-2 operations into code. Speaker: Mahendran Selvakumar X: https://x.com/devopstronaut Subscribe to our YouTube Channel → https://www.youtube.com/c/HashiCorp?sub_confirmation=1 For hands-on interactive labs, visit HashiCorp Developer → https://developer.hashicorp.com/ HashiCorp, an IBM company, helps organizations automate hybrid cloud environments with Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management. HashiCorp offers The Infrastructure Cloud on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) for managed cloud services, as well as self-hosted enterprise offerings and community source-available products. For more information, visit hashicorp.com. For more information → https://hashicorp.com LinkedIn → https://linkedin.com/company/hashicorp X → https://x.com/HashiCorp Facebook → https://facebook.com/HashiCorp