Month: 2026-01 Overview: Delivered a new in-repo data source to enumerate all services within a project, improving automation, governance, and data visibility for Terraform configurations. Resulting artifacts provide essential service metadata directly from the provider, reducing reliance on external HTTP providers. What was delivered: - Key feature: Aiven Service List Data Source (aiven_service_list) added to aiven/terraform-provider-aiven. This data source returns a list of all services in a project and exposes per-service attributes including name, type, state, plan, and cloud configuration. Implemented as a Terraform data source to enable robust inventory queries in infrastructure plans. - Commits: One primary commit documented with a descriptive message (feat: add aiven_service_list data source) that clearly communicates intent and usage to future contributors. Impact and business value: - Automation and governance: Operators can query service inventories directly in Terraform, enabling repeatable deployments, drift detection, and project-scoped visibility without resorting to external APIs. - Operational efficiency: Reduces latency and complexity by consolidating service data retrieval within the Terraform provider, improving build times and reliability for pipeline executions. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Terraform provider development (data source design) and Go language basics. - Clear, structured commit messages aligned to semantic conventions. - Observability of service metadata (name, type, state, plan, cloud config) enabling downstream automation and policy enforcement. Next steps (optional): - Expand test coverage for the new data source, add examples to the docs, and consider additional attributes (region-specifics, labels) for richer inventory data.