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Guides, tutorials, and comparisons to help you build better backend applications.
How Fargate works with ECS and EKS, what it costs, and when serverless containers are the right tradeoff.
Compare the tools used to deploy, update, and run containers in production.
How Docker builds container images and Kubernetes runs them in production.
Compare Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Nomad, Docker Swarm, and Cloud Run.
Set up the AWS provider, create your first resource, move state, separate environments, and deploy through CI.
Use templatefile to generate configuration files from Terraform variables.
Test Terraform modules locally and in CI with assertions and mocked providers.
Use try to handle missing attributes and set defaults in Terraform.
Compare Terraform and Terragrunt for managing configuration across multiple environments.
How sandboxes isolate code, where they fit in development, and what changes when the code is untrusted.
How to deploy and run containers on AWS with ECS and Fargate.
OpenTofu kept Terraform's model under an open source license. These are the best alternatives in 2026, now that agents write most of the code.