Every organization develops different Terraform conventions and custom tooling

6/10 Medium

Terraform's flexibility allows each team to develop unique patterns: custom modules with different naming conventions, varying CI workflows (from simple apply to 8-step pipelines), conflicting use of Terragrunt, and different apply strategies. This fragmentation creates tribal knowledge and complicates onboarding.

Terraform Terragrunt

Sources

https://blog.tryterracotta.com/why-is-terraform-still-hard-in-2025/

Collection History

Query: “What are the most common pain points with Terraform for developers in 2025?”3/29/2026

The beauty of Terraform is its flexibility. The curse of Terraform is also its flexibility. Every company has its own flavors: Custom modules with their own naming patterns... Some teams use terraform apply; others have 8-step CI workflows... Half the team uses Terragrunt (wrong), the other half doesn't (also wrong)

Created: 3/29/2026Updated: 3/29/2026