Manage Datadog Synthetic private locations at scale using the Terraform provider

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Verified steps

  1. Add the Datadog Terraform provider (hashicorp/datadog) and authenticate with DD_API_KEY and DD_APP_KEY environment variables
  2. Define a datadog_synthetics_private_location resource with name and tags; apply to generate the location ID and config JSON output
  3. Store the output config JSON in a secrets manager (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager or Vault); reference it when launching worker containers
  4. Reference the private location's id in datadog_synthetics_test resources via the locations attribute
  5. Use terraform state to track location IDs; destroying the resource invalidates the config JSON and disconnects all workers
  6. Scale horizontally by running multiple worker containers with the same config JSON — they compete for work without additional configuration

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