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weekly.tf - Issue #115 - Terraform Import, Inject runtime information, Dynamic Subnet Management, Automating Multiple Environments, Detect Unused Variables, Run Terraform in your CI, Sharable Configs for Renovatebot, Sort Variables

April 05, 2023

Terraform Import - Challenges and Best Practices

The "Terraform Import" command can help you track and manage resources created outside Terraform. AB: Challenges and Best Practices are described rather well.

controlmonkey.io/blog/the-ultimate-devops-guide-to-terraform-import

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Automating the injection of CI/CD runtime information into Terraform provider

AB: Since using Environment Variables is not an option for customization in Terraform, we need to use tools like hcledit.

letsmake.cloud/automating-the-injection-of-cicd-runtime-information-into-terraform-code

Dynamic Subnet Management Like a Boss with Terraform

AB: Post describes common challenges and available solutions in networking using Terraform modules.

ahaw021.medium.com/dynamic-subnet-management-like-a-boss-with-terraform-86784f4e5f34

Automating Multiple Environments with Terraform

How to manage a central main account for shared infrastructure with a dev, test, and prod account.

www.buildon.aws/tutorials/automating-multiple-environments-with-terraform

Open-source projects

sylwit/terraform-cleaner

Tiny utility which detects unused variables in your terraform modules.

github.com/sylwit/terraform-cleaner

diggerhq/digger

Run Terraform plan / apply in your CI.

github.com/diggerhq/digger

SpotOnInc/renovate-config

Sharable Config Presets for Renovatebot, especially useful for DevOps folks.

github.com/SpotOnInc/renovate-config

AlexNabokikh/tfsort

A CLI utility to sort Terraform variables and outputs.

github.com/AlexNabokikh/tfsort

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