I do completely agree - the main problem I had was that, I tried doing this whilst writing the blog post side-by-side and was aware that the more complex it became, the harder it would be to show it. If I'd use separate files for the HCL then I'd need to show them both (and I think adding a little bit of cognitive complexity to read). So then adding templates etc, would increase that more.

I know for the "creating a server", I just used a module, but all it's meant to say is "I created a machine" and how I did that probably wasn't that important (apart maybe any tiny fragments of useful information with the variables), so I left it as a module. Same with the nomad setup - but at the same time, for what I was trying to achieve, running `nomad agent -dev` would have sufficed, so was somewhat happy with skipping it and showing the module call as "nomad was setup".

So for the remainder, I tried to prefer simplicity and readability, rather than "this is the best way to write Terraform and dynamic modules".

But, I completely agree with you :) Given the nature of the project it's in the pipeline for - I can certainly saying that I like a good Terraform module ;)