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Issue #150 - A few Terra-Do's and Terra-Don'ts, Multiple Environments

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Articles 📚

Automating EC2 Stop Protection with Terraform

Archisman Das describes how to automate the protection of EC2 instances from being stopped inadvertently by anyone with the help of AWS EventBridge and Lambda functions.

aws.plainenglish.io/automating-ec2-stop-protection-terraform-b2654d7bc788

Terra-Do’s and Terra-Don’ts — a few common issues with Terraform iterables and how to avoid them

Jan Vanbuel describes the usage of count vs. for_each and conditional creation of resources - some of the most common issues people experience while learning Terraform.

medium.com/datamindedbe/terra-dos-and-terra-don-ts-a-few-common-issues-with-terraform-iterables-and-how-to-avoid-them-249e4665dad1

Terraform for managing multiple environments

AB: One more article covers the options of managing multiple environments with Terraform.

medium.com/@b0ld8/terraform-manage-multiple-environments-63939f41c454

Private Module Registries for Terraform — A List of Available Tooling Options

Brief description of available Private Module Registries. All of these solutions were mentioned in previous issues of Terraform Weekly newsletters.

medium.com/@DiggerHQ/private-module-registries-for-terraform-a-list-of-available-tooling-options-3e2f798d41b5

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Open-source projects 🤩

Excoriate/go-terradagger

TerraDagger is a Go package for managing your infrastructure-as-code through containers.

github.com/Excoriate/go-terradagger

kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner

A highly optimized, easy-to-use, auto-upgradable, HA-default & Load-Balanced, Kubernetes cluster powered by k3s-on-MicroOS and deployed for peanuts on Hetzner Cloud 🤑 🚀

github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner

SeisoLLC/easy_infra

A docker container to simplify and secure the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

github.com/SeisoLLC/easy_infra

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