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Issue #186 - Drift Detection using GitHub, Fundamentals of DevOps, Decomposing Terraform, Temporal/Git/Orchestration, Automate Rotating Credentials, Secured Bastion Host

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Articles 📚

Let’s Do DevOps: Terraform Drift Detection using GitHub Native Tools

Kyler Middleton explains how to detect and post the drift to a Slack channel with links. AB: If you enjoy reading Kyler’s posts, please consider subscribing to her Substack.

www.letsdodevops.com/p/lets-do-devops-terraform-drift-detection

Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery

Yevgeniy Brikman wrote a new book called Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery. It's a comprehensive, hands-on guide to deploying and managing software in production written for practitioners. The first half is available now, for free, by clicking the link.

www.gruntwork.io/fundamentals-of-devops

Decomposing Terraform into multiple layers — Part 1

Andrey Karpov describes different strategies for decomposing monolithic Terraform deployment to a multi-layered configuration.

medium.com/@andrey.i.karpov/decomposing-terraform-into-multiple-layers-part-1-76b1ff1f4214

Temporal meets Git meets Orchestration

Suraj Subramanian explains how Temporal can be used to implement the solution, which includes a mix of automation and manual activities (e.g., human approval). As an example, it is used to spin up an AKS instance in Azure using Terraform, Temporal, and Go.

medium.com/@surajsub_68985/temporal-meets-git-meets-orchestration-9afc8e2b8db7

Automate Rotating Credentials using Terraform

Andy Leap describes how Mixpanel implements rotation of secrets using “terraform taint”, custom provider’s “multirotate_set”, and Terramate. AB: Pretty cool solution and tips for others to consider.

engineering.mixpanel.com/automate-rotating-credentials-using-terraform-b0e7dab4d793

Open-source projects 🤩

aws-samples/secured-bastion-host-terraform

This project provides an example of how you can use the combination of AWS Systems Manager Session Manager and Amazon EC2 Instance Connect to securely connect to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) bastion host without exposing any inbound ports to the public internet or using long-lived SSH keys.

github.com/aws-samples/secured-bastion-host-terraform

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