Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool by HashiCorp that lets you define and provision cloud infrastructure using a declarative configuration language. This guide explains what Terraform is, why it matters, and how to get started managing infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
A summary of Cloudflare's official postmortem for the November 18, 2025 outage: a database permission change doubled a generated feature file, which crossed a hard limit and crashed the proxy. Plus the lessons we are applying to our own config pipelines.
Minutes after we proxied our marketing site through Cloudflare, every visitor hit ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. Cloudflare's Flexible mode spoke plain HTTP to an origin that redirected all HTTP to HTTPS. Full (strict) with an origin certificate ended the loop.
An overview of Cloudflare's Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise plans, then a practical guide to everything the free tier offers a small team: DNS, CDN, Universal SSL, DDoS protection, WAF managed rules, rate limiting, Tunnel, Zero Trust, Pages, Workers, R2 and Turnstile, with a setup order.