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Issue #166 - Splitting monolithic state, Advanced Configuration of Atlantis, Integrating Terramate with Infracost

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Terraform — how I split my monolithic state

Adrian Arba walks through splitting Terraform state into smaller, more granular state files catering to smaller infrastructure components. Terragrunt is used in this case.

medium.com/@adrianarba/terraform-how-i-split-my-monolithic-state-490916343dba

Integrating Terramate with Infracost

Depascale Matteo explains in detail how to combine the power of Terramate (a powerful orchestrator and code generator for Terraform), and Infracost (a FinOps tool for Terraform that estimates cloud costs and helps you understand expenses before making changes). Bonus: The author also explains how to run it in the CI/CD pipeline.

blog.terramate.io/integrating-terramate-with-infracost-db22e42a5f01

Advanced Configuration of Atlantis with GitHub Apps and Customized Terraform Workflows

Wade Xu highlights the power of Atlantis and its advanced configuration settings.

medium.com/@wadexu007/advanced-configuration-of-atlantis-with-github-apps-for-customized-terraform-workflows-c74bce4c7fde

Creating CloudWatch Alarms for Redshift using Terraform

Yaakov Bressler explains how properly configured CloudWatch Alarms could’ve saved their overloaded Redshift cluster one morning.

blog.det.life/creating-cloudwatch-alarms-for-redshift-using-terraform-0625cfc094e1

Automate Your Way to Success: Streamlining AWS AMI Creation with Packer and Terraform

tldr; You can use null_resource provisioner to run Packer from Terraform. EOF

mahira-technology.medium.com/automate-your-way-to-success-streamlining-aws-ami-creation-with-packer-and-terraform-8a1cff78158b

Open-source projects 🤩

antonbabenko/pre-commit-terraform

pre-commit git hooks to take care of Terraform configurations 🇺🇦 . Kudos to the community and core maintainers (Maksym and George) for their fantastic work on this viral project! 30K of git-clones per day, and the repository almost hit 3000 stars. ✨

github.com/antonbabenko/pre-commit-terraform

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