Running Atlantis at Lyft — eng.lyft.com

Nish Krishnan and Sarvar Muminov from Lyft describe their journey from Jenkins to Atlantis for managing infrastructure. They also cover system architecture and security aspects in a good amount of detail.

Enforcing best practice on self-serve infrastructure with Terraform, Atlantis and Policy As Code

I highly recommend this article by Dan Williams (btw, loveholidays is hiring) for everyone who is interested in Atlantis, Policy as Code, conftest. Loveholidays manages all its infrastructure on Google Cloud using Terraform and Atlantis.

Various blog posts

Terraform is Not the Golden Hammer — hub.qovery.com

Pierre Mavro (CTO of Qovery) explains that Terraform is not the golden hammer by talking about how it has been used at Qovery over time. "Advises and suggestion" section closer to the end is very much point on - split your configurations and use data sources to connect pieces (read more); also use the right tool for the job. AB: it is possible to manage unmanageable with Terraform and deploy everything but do you really want it? :)

5 Quick Videos To Help You Build a Terraform Provider — www.hashicorp.com

These videos are by experts who have been building providers for some years (e.g. Brian Flad, Katy Moe, Paddy Carver, and more)! The videos go beyond the basics in explaining how to build an excellent Terraform provider.

In 20min flat! VMware on Equinix Metal deployed with Terraform (and watching rugby!) — blog.56k.cloud

Open-source projects

egnyte/gitlabform: Specialized "configuration as a code" tool for GitLab projects, groups and more using hierarchical configuration written in YAML — github.com

This project is not really using Terraform but I think it would be interesting to many who are currently using Terraform to accomplish the same. Read this document for comparison.

chadgeary/cloudworkstation: A Linux desktop in the cloud reachable via browser

A Linux desktop in the cloud which is reachable via browser using Apache Guacamole and deployed automatically via Terraform and Ansible.

Atlantis

I and Bryant Biggs (one of the core maintainers of Terraform AWS modules, and an experienced Terraform user) will be talking about Atlantis: what is it, how we can use it.

I am sure that some readers also wonder whether we still have a place for Atlantis nowadays when we have many of TACOS (Terraform Automation & Collaboration Software) available. Let's talk about it!

"Terraform in Action" Book by Scott Winkler

I think it is an outstanding source of knowledge for Terraform enthusiasts of all levels. You can also watch this video where I and Skott were discussing it or you can even support me and buy it with 25% off using my affiliate link.

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