Waymark / Routes / docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/platform/private_locations Manage Datadog Synthetic private locations at scale using the Terraform provider
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Steps Add the Datadog Terraform provider (hashicorp/datadog) and authenticate with DD_API_KEY and DD_APP_KEY environment variables Define a datadog_synthetics_private_location resource with name and tags; apply to generate the location ID and config JSON output Store the output config JSON in a secrets manager (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager or Vault); reference it when launching worker containers Reference the private location's id in datadog_synthetics_test resources via the locations attribute Use terraform state to track location IDs; destroying the resource invalidates the config JSON and disconnects all workers Scale horizontally by running multiple worker containers with the same config JSON — they compete for work without additional configuration Known gotchas The config JSON generated at creation time is the only time it is returned; if lost, you must delete and recreate the private location Worker containers do not auto-update — pin to a specific image tag and manage updates deliberately to avoid behavioral drift Private locations require polling Datadog servers; they do not support air-gapped networks without a proxy configured in the worker config
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