Terraform every AWS Region — blog.nicwaller.com

Nic Waller made a good point that when managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, it is surprisingly hard to create resources in all enabled regions. AB: Until there is a native way in Terraform to instantiate providers using a loop, users have to come up with strange solutions like render templates using Jinja, use Terragrunt, or use CDK for Terraform. I would like my kids not to know what I did with Jsonnet in the past, too.

Testing Your Terraform Infrastructure Code With Python — betterprogramming.pub

Mehdi Ouazza explains how to test IaC with Python. AB: Python is a decent option until the module testing experiment in Terraform is concluded and we all can happily use Human-friendly Configuration Language (aka HCL) and enjoy running terraform test (video 1, video 2).

Terraform at LumApps: Part 1. Talking about Infrastructure-As-Code — medium.com

Jérôme Pin wrote about LumApps journey toward Service-Oriented Architecture touching on platform domain, use-cases, and implementation details. AB: They operate in GCP and Azure.

Custom Policies in Checkov — medium.com

Anil Nanda explains how to define custom policies in Checkov to do a static code analysis for misconfigurations that may lead to security or compliance problems.

HashiConf Europe June 20-22, 2022 Amsterdam and Virtual — hashiconf.com

Join the HashiCorp community for two full days of infrastructure and security automation, modern application delivery, and the future of the cloud. AB: See you in Amsterdam!

Open-source projects

GoogleCloudPlatform/terraform-python-testing-helper — github.com

Simple Python test helper for Terraform.

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