A few years into my career, I began working in an Azure environment and quickly learned about Terraform. I quickly started working with Terraform and grew into a grizzled veteran. After deleting my first cloud database by accident, I started compiling a list of things I wish I had learned more thoroughly when picking up this exciting tool. Terraform is the most popular tool for infrastructure-as-code in the market but it comes with risks and pitfalls that are not just technology-related but also people-related. We will discuss these pitfalls and how best to remediate them.