Luca Berton

Hi, I'm Luca.

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I've been writing infrastructure-as-code professionally since 2014 — first deploying Ansible at scale, now spending most of my days in Terraform and OpenTofu. My day job is at Red Hat, where I work on automation. The rest of my time goes into writing, teaching, and answering the same Terraform questions people kept emailing me.

Terraform Pilot is where I publish what I actually use.

What this site is (and isn't)

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It is a place to find:

• Tutorials I would have wanted when I was learning — examples that run, not the ones that compile but never work.
• Notes on Terraform and OpenTofu patterns from real engagements, with the trade-offs spelled out instead of hidden.
• Reviews of the books and courses I've used, including the ones I wrote.

It isn't:

• Listicles assembled by a language model. Every post here is something I built, broke, or had to debug at 2 AM.
• A funnel. There's a paid course catalogue if you want one, but most of what's worth knowing is in the free articles.

What I work on

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• Terraform & OpenTofu — modules, state management, multi-cloud, migrations between the two.
• Ansible — I wrote Ansible For VMware by Examples (Apress, 2022) and run Ansible Pilot.
• Cloud platforms — AWS, Azure, GCP, with a soft spot for AWS because that's where most of the real workloads I see actually live.

Getting in touch

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• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lucaberton
• GitHub: github.com/lucab85
• YouTube: @BertonLuca
• Email: info@terraformpilot.com

If you found a bug in an article or want to suggest a topic, the fastest route is email or a GitHub issue on the relevant repo. I read everything; I reply to most of it.