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weekly.tf - Issue #117 - IaC Secrets Management, Terraform testing with Localstack and Terratest, Effortless security with OPA and Atlantis, Visual Overview of Terraform commands, Hatchet, Terracove

April 19, 2023

IaC Secrets Management From GitHub Secrets to AWS Secrets Manager

A guide on Secrets management using GitHub Secrets, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and AWS Secrets Manager.

betterprogramming.pub/iac-secrets-management-from-github-secrets-to-aws-secrets-manager-63bb4fdd5992

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Other articles

Terraform (IaC) testing: Localstack + Terratest.

AB: The post teaches you to write and deploy terraform code using Localstack and how to test your code using Terratest.

medium.com/@ledevedeccorentin/terraform-iac-testing-localstack-terratest-9946dafe98b6

Effortless security with OPA and Atlantis

“Why should I care? I have IAM for that!” — some random engineer

medium.com/tech-gwi/effortless-security-with-opa-and-atlantis-e4bd16d725b8

OPA Series Part 1: Open Policy Agent and Terraform

AB: This blog post covers the basics of using OPA to evaluate and enforce policy on your Terraform plans.

medium.com/@scalr/opa-series-part-1-open-policy-agent-and-terraform-scaling-terraform-80fa11c0ded0

Simplifying Infrastructure Management with Terraform: A Visual Overview of Key Commands

AB: If you are a visual learner, this post may help you understand Terraform better.

medium.com/geekculture/useful-terraform-commands-in-a-flow-diagram-10ca1b13f73a

Open-source projects

hatchet-dev/hatchet

An all-in-one Terraform management tool. AB: Looks rather promising if I understand their docs correctly.

github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet

jatalocks/terracove

Recursively test a directory tree for Terraform diffs and coverage.

github.com/jatalocks/terracove

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