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Issue #185 - Policy as Code (OPA, Sentinel), AWS RDS IAM, EKS Pod Identities, Endpoint Health Monitoring, CodeBuild workflows on GitHub PRs

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Mastering Policy Enforcement in Open-Source Terraform: A Hands-On Guide

Lakshmi Thungala walkthrough using Open Policy Agent (OPA), pre-commit checks, and custom scripts to enforce policies in your Terraform workflows.

medium.com/towards-aws/mastering-policy-enforcement-in-open-source-terraform-a-hands-on-guide-1324645b32b4?sk=4bd9c64dce8c75b7a452555d04d79a47

Enforcing Policy as Code in Terraform? [Sentinel & OPA]

Mattias Fjellström demonstrates how to use and enforce policy as code in Terraform with two popular Policy as Code tools — HashiCorp Sentinel and Open Policy Agent (OPA).

spacelift.io/blog/terraform-policy-as-code

AWS RDS IAM database authentication, EKS Pod Identities, and Terraform

Arseny Zinchenko describes different RDS authentication mechanisms and how to use Terraform for AWS EKS Pod Identities and Kubernetes Pod ServiceAccount to connect to RDS.

rtfm.co.ua/en/aws-rds-iam-database-authentication-eks-pod-identities-and-terraform

Endpoint Health Monitoring with AWS Services and Terraform

Tarlan Huseynov describes the reliable health monitoring solution using Amazon’s Route53 Health Checks service combined with CloudWatch Alarms, SNS, and Lambda.

dev.to/wardove/endpoint-health-monitoring-with-aws-services-and-terraform-56e5

Creating CodeBuild workflows for Terraform on GitHub PRs

Wang Poh Peng explains the pros and cons of using GitHub Actions and, most importantly, describes the way to trigger CodeBuild from GitHub PRs.

wangpp.medium.com/creating-codebuild-workflows-for-terraform-on-github-prs-f3806d3a7568

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