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weekly.tf - Issue #107 - AI-generated IaC, Terraform state to code, Terragrunt vs Terraspace, Crossplane, Github OIDC for Azure, AWS Observability Accelerator for Terraform, tflint with OPA, terradrift

AI-Generated Infrastructure-as-Code: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Paul Foryt (Director of Product Management at Styra) took a deep dive into what AI-generated code tools like GitHub Copilot and OpenAI’s Codex model mean for teams using infrastructure as code.

www.styra.com/blog/ai-generated-infrastructure-as-code-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly

From Terraform state to Terraform code

AB: Joe Tavin describes how to use simple Terraform commands to create an entire Terraform definition file from Terraform state file from scratch.

Deep State: Extract Code and Resources From the Terraform State File

betterprogramming.pub/deep-state-create-terraform-code-from-the-state-file-b64b3c924af3

Other articles:

Terraform Tools: Comparing Terragrunt and Terraspace

Terraform management at scale: Terragrunt or Terraspace?

nearform.hashnode.dev/terraform-tools-comparing-terragrunt-and-terraspace

ChatGPT’s thoughts about Crossplane and Terraform

Are they better together?

blog.cloudmonk.me/crossplane-and-terraform

Github OIDC with Terraform and Azure

Securing GitHub Actions with OIDC to create continuous infrastructure on Azure Continuous deployment workflows can deploy and manage the lifecycle of cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.

blog.stevengonsalvez.com/github-oidc-with-terraform-and-azure

EKS Observability Infrastructure as Code - AWS Observability Accelerator

The blog post will explore how you can provision an observability landscape to monitor and manage your EKS clusters using AWS Observability Accelerator for Terraform.

www.sivamuthukumar.com/blog/eks-aws-observability-accelerator

Enforce and validate AWS tags with Atlantis + OPA + Terraform

This article shows how to force specific tags and tag values in AWS resources with Terraform, Atlantis, and Open Policy Agent.

medium.com/@wendellbarcellos/enforce-and-validate-aws-tags-with-atlantis-opa-terraform-46f7bfd453cb

Open-source projects

AB: I am rather excited about this project because I think it is the right approach toward making infrastructure unit-testing feasible.

terraform-linters/tflint-ruleset-opa

Experimental: TFLint ruleset plugin for writing custom rules in Rego.

github.com/terraform-linters/tflint-ruleset-opa

rootsami/terradrift

A tool to detect drifts in Terraform IaC.

github.com/rootsami/terradrift

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