HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certification Course - Pass the Exam! — www.youtube.com

If you want to prepare for the HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certification and pass, all you need is access to YouTube for 13 hours! It is a free course, and you can reduce the playback speed in the player's settings (Andrew has one speed, and it is very fast).

Articles

Do not use AWS CloudFormation

Do yourself a favor and read this article by Greg Swallow to understand why he believes that Terraform is a better fit, even if you are managing AWS infrastructure in 2021. Of course, some will disagree with this article, but I still want readers to think about the reasons for developing multiple abstract solutions (e.g., AWS Cloud Control API was released this week ) 🤷‍♂️

How to Deploy AWS Config Conformance Packs Using Terraform — aws.amazon.com

AWS Config is a rather simple and powerful way to govern AWS resources. Using OPA to create AWS Config rules enables more possibilities and you can use Lambda Extension to run OPA 🤯

Common Patterns of Infrastructure as Code Architecture — Terraform and Terragrunt — faun.pub

This article describes common patterns in Infrastructure as Code to summarize and highlight the design principle underlying good architecture.

Evolving Your Infrastructure with Terraform

A classical video by Nicky Watt is from 2017. Many readers didn't know about Terraform back then, but I find that referring to this video is very helpful in discussions with customers and the community where nowadays it is easier to try to find the silver bullet by just using another tool (Pulumi, Terraform, CDK, etc.) or by just adopting another approach (e.g., terragrunt vs. Terraform workspaces) instead of understanding the root of the problems we are trying to solve with IaC.

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