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Please enjoy the Terraform Weekly newsletter and share it with your peers if you like it. I will probably see some of your at HashiConf Global in Los Angeles (October 4-6, 2022).

No one should write Terraform. Reflecting upon zwischenzugs article... — medium.com

Leon Wright wrote a reflection upon zwischenzugs' insightful and thought-provoking article “Who should write the Terraform?”, the TL;DR conclusion Leon came to was “No One”. AB: I do not fully agree with the author because to me the key to productivity with Terraform lies in using building blocks (modules) and not hoping that by using CDK for Terraform the underlying Terraform limitations will automagically go away. The cover image was made by me.

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Infrastructure Provisioning of Terraform by using Kitchen Terraform — blog.searce.com

Apurva Shingne and Prajakta Shete described a way to start testing your Terraform code and explained why it’s helpful in preventing issues before they become bugs. AB: Unfortunately, Kitchen Terraform is still not integrated with terraform test command natively.

Terragrunt/Terraform with Atlantis to Automate your Infrastructure Pull Requests — medium.com

AB: This post explains the life before Atlantis, deployment of Atlantis on Kubernetes cluster, and running it happily with Terragrunt. Short but rather insightful post.

How DoorDash Ensures Velocity and Reliability through Policy Automation — doordash.engineering

Lin Du and Juvenal Santos described how DoorDash enables its engineers to self-serve infrastructure through policy automation while ensuring reliability and speed. AB: They use Atlantis with Conftest.

Grafana alerts as code: Get started with Terraform and Grafana Alerting — grafana.com

Alex Weaver explains how Terraform provider support for Grafana Alerting makes it easy to create, manage, and maintain your entire Grafana Alerting stack as code.

Open-source projects

Plenituz/barbe-serverless — github.com

A serverless application development solution backed by Terraform. AB: If you want to write fewer lines and don't mind introducing one more abstraction, this can be for you.

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