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weekly.tf - Issue #98 - Terraform at Slack (!), CDK for Terraform with LocalStack, Karpenter, Trust but Verify IaC with DriftCtl, GCP modules structure, Automate Azure Infrastructure, Terraform Serverless Patterns

weekly.tf - Issue #98 - Terraform at Slack (!), CDK for Terraform with LocalStack, Karpenter, Trust but Verify IaC with DriftCtl, GCP modules structure, Automate Azure Infrastructure, Terraform Serverless Patterns

November 09, 2022

How We Use Terraform At Slack - Slack Engineering — slack.engineering

Archie Gunasekara describes in a good amount of detail how Slack deploys its infrastructure using Terraform. AB: I found the need for tools like Terraform Smart Planner very valuable for a wider audience because tracking changes across all the dependencies between stacks is a rather hard task to do at scale. terraform-diff mentioned in issue #91, can help with this problem in a way.

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Using Terraform CDK with LocalStack (Python) — medium.com

Shaun Scovil describes his journey to get CDK for Terraform to work with LocalStack. AB: You can also watch my previously-recorded episode with Waldemar H. (CTO of LocalStack) here.

Karpenter — Deploy Step By Step with Terraform and Helm — medium.com

Amir Lev describes the steps to deploy Karpenter (a node autoscaler developed by AWS) using Terraform and helm, and I will guide you through it step by step.

Trust but Verify with your Infrastructure as Code — medium.com

Josh Armitage explains why infrastructure drift undermines your initiatives and how to use infrastructure drift tooling to understand and improve IaC hygiene across your AWS organization. AB: Josh is using DriftCtl, Amazon EventBridge, and Grafana for this. Very nice!

Designing Google Cloud infrastructure with Terraform’s module structure — medium.com

JB says there are many ways to build cloud infrastructure, and then he describes some of them related to the GCP module structure. AB: 🇺🇦

Automate Azure Infrastructure Provisioning with Terraform — Part II — medium.com

Sachin Mamoru wrote another post (part 2) about automating Azure infrastructure provisioning. You can also read part 1 and part 3 for the complete process from start to finish.

🔴 Terraform Serverless Patterns - November 11

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