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Template best practices

We recommend a few ways to manage workspace resources, authentication, and versioning.

Change management
Versioning templates with git and CI
Provider authentication
Authenticate the provisioner
Resource persistence
How resource persistence works in Coder
Terraform modules
Reuse code across Coder templates
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