My Journey with Hacktoberfest 2021 ! 🎉
Tags: hacktoberfest, terraform, cloud
Published: 2021-10-15 07:41:30

### 2020 Journey

So, this is my second Hacktoberfest participation. On 2020 I participated for the first time and it was a great [experience towards Open source platforms](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jayendran-arumugam-%E2%98%81%E2%98%81-76906a100_hacktoberfest-learning-azurefunctions-activity-6723131304029892608-_BgF/).

![2020 Hacktoberfest](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/kc3tgonmr71ypalf51vn.png)

![Dev badge](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/3mmeii0id34dnaji3qot.png)
 
With the same thrill, here I almost completed my 2021 hacktoberfest 😍 *- Just waiting for standard 14 days review waiting period to get over.*

### 2021 Story so far

Before October I did my [first contribution](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jayendran-arumugam-%E2%98%81%E2%98%81-76906a100_enabling-advancedfilteringonarraysenabled-activity-6824004345256927232-hQnN) to azure terraform

{% github hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm %}

which made me a special impression towards their community members and maintainers. So, I thought of using this hacktoberfest opportunity to contribute more to azure terraform.

Unfortunately my knowledge with [Go language](https://golang.org/) is not that good😕 **But** I don’t want that to stop my interest towards contribution. So, I went to their issues and start searching for the `good first issues` and `documentation` labels.

Then I started fixing the issues by raising a couple of small PRs, which was merged quickly 🎉. Then I found a great step-back 😱, [unfortunately azure terraform repo is not participated in the Hacktoberfest event](https://dev.to/jayendran/comment/1ihgh) 😔. But the maintainers helped me to get my PR's eligible for Hacktoberfest 🤗. See the community love ♥ 


![Terraform Slack Channel](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/w10zylwee50whbtgadlr.jpg)

This motivates me to complete my final 2 PR's 😍

![Terraform Slack Channel2](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/xah1aflo9pa3tr45rxrs.png)

Here is my 4 simple PR's which fixes 4 simple existing issues

{% github https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/pull/13675 %}

{% github https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/pull/13643 %}

{% github https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/pull/13599 %}

{% github https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/pull/13592 %}


One of the interesting fact is I'm the only one who complete 4 PR's that were labeled `hacktoberfest-accepted` on the [`terraform-provider-azurerm`](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues?q=label%3Ahacktoberfest-accepted+) project 😁

![hacktoberfest-accepted label](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/082pynz7t5pikkev0w0g.png)

With all this I got the official mail of completion 🎉


![Completion](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/lijeecinrqmo3ua78qds.jpg)



![progress](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/cfpfm0mugtm4upejucuo.jpg)




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##Final Completion 🎉🎉
![Final Completion](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/0h6frlwcl54hr1dbsqy8.png)
 
## Swags 🤩

![prizes](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ky5gw32h8caqedvzi7ry.jpg)


 

### Get your limited edition Hacktoberfest 2021 Badge 


{% post https://dev.to/devteam/hacktoberfest-2021-is-here-4a3l %}

![Dev Post](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/7ypp3goa4rn860sq344y.png)