Creating and configuring new source code repos can be a tedious process and prone to misconfiguraion. Here are some examples of easy to forget configurations: access branches and protection rules webhooks deploy keys labels default files and more One approach to enforce standartization is to handle repo creation and configuration with infrastracture as code. Terraform conveniently has the github provider that empowers us to perform this task fairly easily. Github: Automate Code Repos full article
Occasionally, you will need to look at what terraform does behind the scenes in order to decipher some weird edge case. In that scenario, we just need to set an environment variable: TF_LOG=DEBUG Terraform: Enable Logs full article