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Issue #165 - Mastering Security on GCP, Enforcing OPA with Terraform, Local Testing of Serverless Apps

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Fortifying the Cloud: Mastering Security on Google Cloud Platform — A Complete Guide

William Warley wrote a guide about various security techniques and practices in GCP, which can be used to investigate specific topics (e.g., cost, and usage of Terraform) further.

medium.com/@williamwarley/fortifying-the-cloud-mastering-security-on-google-cloud-platform-a-complete-guide-6c831bbe8ad4

Enforcing OPA policies with Terraform / OpenTofu in network-isolated Azure VNet

Tommaso Colella describes integrating OPA with Azure DevOps and a network-isolated self-hosted pipeline agent. And then, how to enforce OPA policies on resource naming.

gioleppe.github.io/posts/opa-terraform-azure-one

Simplifying Local Testing of Serverless Applications with SAM CLI and Terraform

Shruti Tirpude highlights how to improve the local development experience by invoking the Lambda function locally using SAM CLI and Docker.

medium.com/@stirpude/simplifying-local-testing-of-serverless-applications-with-sam-cli-and-terraform-a807e2abac96

Provisioning AWS Infrastructure Using Terraform and Amazon Linux Based EKS Optimized Golden AMI

Paul Zhao wrote the longest article I have ever seen. This one covers ways to automate the provisioning of AWS infrastructure, using Terraform and Packer, and setting up ArgoCD with EKS.

medium.com/paul-zhao-projects/provisioning-aws-infrastructure-using-terraform-and-amazon-linux-based-eks-optimized-golden-ami-deaa28056688

Auto-Pilot Alarms: Automating CloudWatch Alarms with Lambda and Terraform

Sergio Cuéllar Valdés describes an interesting solution to automating the creation of auto-pilot alarms.

medium.com/globant/auto-pilot-alarms-automating-cloudwatch-alarms-with-lambda-and-terraform-54fbabcfcbcc

Open-source projects 🤩

TheCloudTheory/arm-estimator

ACE (Azure Cost Estimator) - automated cost estimations for ARM Templates, Bicep, and Terraform

github.com/TheCloudTheory/arm-estimator

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