OTTO JONGERIUS • DEVELOPER • ATLASSIAN • @XZU

Writing a Terraform provider

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Background

Anatomy

Provider tree

Docs tree

Some Code

Example resource

Never do this

Ignore feedback

Try to be too smart

Raise a PR as soon as you have something

KISS

Follow contribution guidelines

Getting inspiration

Small

Big

Increasing confidence

Helpers and configs

Test definitions

Letting go of your baby

Limited exposure

Headcount just bumped to 519

Fancy rendering

• https://tour.golang.org• https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform• https://www.datadoghq.com• https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md• https://github.com/ojongerius/terraform-provider-datadog

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Thank you!

OTTO JONGERIUS • DEVELOPER • ATLASSIAN • @XZU