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How I Built a Terraform Plan JSON Parser in Python

Most DevOps engineers have run terraform plan thousands of times. Very few have looked at what comes out when you add the -json flag. I spent a couple of weeks inside that JSON output while building tfdrift, an open-source drift detection tool. What I found was a surprisingly well-structured format

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