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Inside Terraform's DAG: How dependency ordering really works

Josh Pollara • September 29, 2025

Terraform DAG Infrastructure Technical Deep Dive

A technical deep dive into Terraform's dependency graph engine: how the DAG is constructed, how implicit and explicit dependencies work, and how Terraform walks the graph to execute plans with parallelism.