By Morgan Lucas (she/her)

What is Visual Studio Code?

It’s a place most people write code, and it does much more. I open terminals to use Docker, AWS, and Terraform. I can see my code and test it quickly this way!

What is Terraform Remote?

Terraform remote (tf remote) is when you do terraform apply and the tfstate file (The file that says “Oh, here is what you did!”) is copied both offsite and on your local machine.

It’s used more when there are multiple developers working on one thing, so someone’s state isn’t totally overwritten. Think CircleCI/Jenkins.

Why Did You Try It?

To see if I could!

What Did You Do?

The code worked - It was my S3 bucket permissions that were a little off, and did not allow me to place anything in there unless I went into the GUI and did it myself - which is time intensive and defeats the purpose of this project a bit.

What Happened Afterward?

Uh, well, VS Code suddenly had a lot of issues with permissions - It seems to have imploded the executable on my machine. I couldn’t start it, (’The location of this file could not be found’), but it wasn’t in my list of programs to uninstall - It was a ghost program.

Could You Delete the Files?

In theory - My permissions had gone screwy as well, and no amount of adjusting or using 3rd party, but Microsoft Approved tools worked.

Is It Fixed?