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Issue #196 - Compliant Secrets, Terraform Stacks with AWS and Azure, Terraform Tips and Structure, Serverless PHP with Bref, Sonar

October 23, 2024

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Articles 📚

Implementing Compliant Secrets with AWS Secrets Manager

Oleksandr Kuzminskyi explains how a trivial answer to who has access to a specific password led him to implement the Terraform module because maintaining the resource permission policy statements can be error-prone and hard to make user and security-compliance-friendly.

infrahouse.com/posts/2024-09-29-compliant-secrets

Terraform Stacks

Terraform Stacks - Part 1 - An Introduction

Mike Guy explores Terraform Stacks, a new feature in Terraform Cloud that allows you to manage multiple environments and deployments of Terraform configurations.

https://mikeguy.co.uk/posts/terraform-stacks-part-1/

Terraform Stacks with Amazon Web Services

Mattias Fjellström covers using Terraform stacks with Amazon Web Services (AWS). AB: There are lots of details and explanations.

mattias.engineer/blog/2024/terraform-stacks-aws

Terraform Stacks with Microsoft Azure

Mattias Fjellström covers using Terraform stacks with Microsoft Azure.

mattias.engineer/blog/2024/terraform-stacks-azure

How to Structure a Terraform Project

Sumeet Ninawe and Flavius Dinu describe (again) a few important strategies and best practices around structuring Terraform project files in an efficient and standardized way.

dev.to/spacelift/how-to-structure-a-terraform-project-1ojn

Reflections on IaC using Terraform

Abdullah Barrak provides a few useful notes while working on Terraform projects. AB: Some of these tips are very powerful and should be used often.

www.abarrak.com/2024/10/17/reflections-on-iac-with-terraform-2

Open-Source Projects 🤩

psantus/php-serverless-lambda-bref-terraform

PHP on AWS Lambda with Bref framework, deployed with Terraform.

github.com/psantus/php-serverless-lambda-bref-terraform/tree/main

SonarSource/sonar-iac

Static Code Analyser for Infrastructure-as-Code languages such as CloudFormation and Terraform, as well as DevOps like Docker and Kubernetes. AB: Thanks Nat for finding this one and sharing with me.

github.com/SonarSource/sonar-iac

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