en Hey! I'm Ricard Bejarano. I'm a Site Reliability Engineer at Cisco, the author of The Homelab Handbook, and a builder by passion. https://www.bejarano.io/ Copyright © 2026 Ricard Bejarano Human review of Terraform plans doesn’t scale, and AI review isn’t deterministic enough for production. Here’s how we use conftest to auto-apply plans that meet an explicit, testable policy. ricard@bejarano.io (Ricard Bejarano) https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-autoapply/ https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-autoapply/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Terraform init, plan and apply have distinct performance bottlenecks. Here’s a breakdown of each phase, what makes it slow, and what you can do about it. ricard@bejarano.io (Ricard Bejarano) https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-performance/ https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-performance/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Terraform plugin cache does not support concurrent terraform inits. Here’s how we worked around that with OverlayFS. ricard@bejarano.io (Ricard Bejarano) https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-overlayfs/ https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-overlayfs/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 A proposal for faster Terraform plans: terraform plan -light. Faster plan times without breaking up state. ricard@bejarano.io (Ricard Bejarano) https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-plan-light/ https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-plan-light/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Over a year ago I wrote a piece titled ‘Terraform should’ve remained stateless’. Here’s my self-critique of that post, with what I know now. ricard@bejarano.io (Ricard Bejarano) https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-stateless-critique/ https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-stateless-critique/ Sat, 07 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Impersonating someone in SMS texts is way too easy, we must change this to prevent social engineering fraud. ricard@bejarano.io (Ricard Bejarano) https://www.bejarano.io/sms-phishing/ https://www.bejarano.io/sms-phishing/ Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 In short: add your Jira projects as Google Chrome search engines so that you can quickly find issues by number. ricard@bejarano.io (Ricard Bejarano) https://www.bejarano.io/jira-issues-shortcut/ https://www.bejarano.io/jira-issues-shortcut/ Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 macOS’ recent security developments prevent some cron jobs from performing their duties. This is how to fix it. ricard@bejarano.io (Ricard Bejarano) https://www.bejarano.io/fixing-cron-jobs-in-mojave/ https://www.bejarano.io/fixing-cron-jobs-in-mojave/ Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Quick and easy guide for securing macOS systems, for both laymen and security enthusiasts. Last updated for Golden Gate. ricard@bejarano.io (Ricard Bejarano) https://www.bejarano.io/hardening-macos/ https://www.bejarano.io/hardening-macos/ Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000