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Issue #148 - Terraform Security Best Practices and Accessing Internal Applications without VPN

November 22, 2023

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Articles 📚

Terraform Security Best Practices – Sysdig

Well-described security best practices for Terraform that users must follow carefully. This article provides that guidance.

sysdig.com/blog/terraform-security-best-practices

AWS Verified Access for Accessing Internal Applications without VPN (Terraform code provided)

Duleendra Shashimal explains how to use AWS Verified Access to access an application without requiring a VPN. Lots of code and details!

towardsaws.com/aws-verified-access-for-accessing-internal-applications-without-vpn-88c1725af182

How to Build an AWS CloudWatch Dashboard using Terraform

Achintha shows a decent example of using the aws_cloudwatch_dashboard resource to manage dashboards as code.

achinthabandaranaike.medium.com/how-to-build-an-aws-cloudwatch-dashboard-using-terraform-7169311c5d73

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Infrastructure as Code Will be Written by AI

Developers should deploy their code but usually don’t today. But AI might change that. AB: In the long run, IaC will become an unnecessary concept that can be delegated to AI. “Infrastructure from Code” is one of the alternatives.

matt-rickard.com/infrastructure-as-code-will-be-written-by-ai

Open-source projects 🤩

seeeverything/publish-terraform-modules

GitHub action to publish modules to a terraform registry.

github.com/seeeverything/publish-terraform-modules

porscheofficial/terraform-aws-ecr-watch

A Dashboard for AWS ECR usage based on CloudWatch log insight queries.

github.com/porscheofficial/terraform-aws-ecr-watch

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