Your Daily Workflow

3.1 Morning Routine

Check the team channel for announcements or updated materials
git pull — sync any updates to your repo
Review what you planned to do today against the weekly milestone
Open VS Code in your Terraform working directory
If using any AWS resources from yesterday: confirm they are still running or destroy them if done

Question	Example
Yesterday	Finished the VPC Terraform module — subnets and route tables are provisioned. Pushed to GitLab.
Today	Will start the security group configuration for the jump host and web servers.
Blockers	"Terraform plan is failing with a CIDR overlap error — tried adjusting the ranges but still getting it. Need help."

Pro Tip

Raise blockers in the standup — not at the end of the day.

Cost is a blocker too. If you are unsure whether a resource is running and costing money, raise it.

Watch Out

Always destroy resources you are no longer using: terraform destroy

After every activity, confirm all resources are deleted in the AWS Console.

Check the AWS Cost Explorer or Billing dashboard at the end of each day.

Never leave an RDS instance, NAT Gateway, or EC2 instance running overnight if you are not actively using it.