Using Terraform to automate everything — from Dominos to Slack — medium.com

Elliot Graebert explains why the power of Terraform is in the underlying framework. Automating your ticket queue with self-service Terraform repositories works for more use cases than you might think. Slack, Jira, GitHub... The sky's the limit.

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GitHub CI/CD pipeline design choices for deploying Terraform code to GCP data domain — bh3r1th.medium.com

Bharath N shares multiple designs for CI/CD deployment pipelines that they use when building on the GCP data platform using Data Mesh principles. AB: Bonus point from me for the diagrams.

Playing with Crossplane, for real — prune998.medium.com

Sebastien Prune wrote a very good comparison with Terraform on what Crossplane can do and what kind of providers it has in 2022 (a lot).

Deprecating AWS CloudFormation stacks towards Terraform — medium.com

Benjamin Riou explains why they decided to deprecate AWS CloudFormation in favor of Terraform and how did they switch smoothly.

Open-source projects

awslabs/terraform-iam-policy-validator — github.com

A command line tool that validates AWS IAM Policies in a Terraform template against AWS IAM best practices.

magodo/tfadd — github.com

Generate valid Terraform configuration from the state. AB: Worth keeping an eye on the project before such functionality exists in the Terraform core.

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