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Issue #157 - AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform, LocalStack with GitHub Actions, Terragrunt, Backstage

January 24, 2024

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How Zurich Insurance Group built their Scalable Account Vending process using AWS Account Factory for Terraform

A post by Raffaele Garofalo and John Duckmanton explains why Scalable Account Vending solution was introduced in Zurich and how adopting AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform helped them achieve the scalability, resilience, and performance requirements to support provisioning of a projected 3000+ accounts.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/how-zurich-insurance-group-built-their-scalable-account-vending-process-using-aws-account-factory-for-terraform

Using LocalStack and GitHub Actions to Test Terraform AWS Deployments

Robbie Douglas clearly describes how to use LocalStack from within GitHub Actions because we don’t always want to create AWS resources for real, do we?

medium.com/@robbiedouglas/using-localstack-and-github-actions-to-test-terraform-aws-deployments-0a119dcff7c2

Terragrunt root selector

Bill Liu describes a way to select the best root directory based on the file automatically changed using GitHub Actions.

medium.com/@bill.nz/terragrunt-root-selector-automatically-select-the-best-root-directory-base-on-file-changed-8f0b4147a8a3

Creating Infra Using Backstage Templates, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

Sagar Parmar describes the steps to achieve self-service using Backstage Templates.

sagar-parmar.medium.com/creating-infra-using-backstage-templates-terraform-and-github-actions-15ca4a93b1a1

Terraform As A Service: Google Infrastructure Manager

Onkar Naik explains a lot of details about Google Infrastructure Manager - from what it is to how to use it.

medium.com/google-cloud/terraform-as-a-service-google-infrastructure-manager-409c2c9e71d5

Open-source projects 🤩

aws-samples/data-perimeter-policy-examples

Example policies demonstrating how to implement a data perimeter on AWS.

github.com/aws-samples/data-perimeter-policy-examples

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