🔧 Build a Terraform provider for your side project's API (it's smaller than you think)

Writing a Terraform provider sounds like a big-company activity, something HashiCorp partners do with a team and a roadmap. In practice, if your API has CRUD endpoints, the provider is mostly plumbing. Here is the map worth having before you start.

The running example throughout is the open-source Terraform provider for SMTPfast, a transactional...