weekly.tf - Issue #103 - Terraform modules management, Terraform import with debugging, AWS CDK or Terraform, Service Accounts in GCP, Terraform Plugin Framework

Anton Babenko
January 11, 2023

Terraform modules management

AB: Chen wrote a detailed post explaining how they use terralist to improve the versioning of Terraform modules.

This is how you want to manage your Terraform modules

What if I told you there is a way to manage all your private terraform modules, in a mono-repo, with independent versioning, without using git tags? After researching for a proper open-source tool, I found the right one for the job.

https://devopsian.net/posts/terraform-modules-management/

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Terraform import + debugging story

AB: Malcolm Matalka explains the peculiarities of running terraform import and various bugs one may hit on the way.

How to Import AWS S3 Buckets into Terraform - Terrateam

How to import an AWS S3 bucket

https://terrateam.io/blog/aws-s3-import

A Debugging Story: A Bug in the S3 API - Terrateam

How to import an AWS S3 bucket

https://terrateam.io/blog/debugging-aws-s3-import

AWS CDK or Terraform?

AB: Monica Colangelo lists many advantages and disadvantages of both solutions. Feel free to discuss them in the comments. You can also subscribe to her newsletter "Let's Make Cloud".

4 ultimate reasons to prefer AWS CDK over Terraform

There is an Italian version of this article; if you'd like to read it click here. Over the past few months I have been using AWS CDK for some projects, and every time I started talking about it, someone would ask: why should I abandon the tool I am ...

https://letsmake.cloud/4-ultimate-reasons-to-prefer-aws-cdk-over-terraform

Service Accounts with Terraform, Terragrunt, Google Cloud Build

Create Service Accounts with Custom Roles using modular Terraform, Terragrunt and Cloud Build

The goal of this article is to create Service Accounts with Custom Roles in Google Cloud using CI CD pipeline and Infrastructure As Code.

https://medium.com/google-cloud/create-service-accounts-with-custom-roles-using-modular-terraform-terragrunt-and-cloud-build-474371b25388

Terraform Providers

Terraform Plugin Framework Is Now Generally Available

The Terraform Plugin Framework 1.0 is now generally available to provide a modern and extensible way for developers to create Terraform providers.

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-plugin-framework-is-now-generally-available

Open-source projects

GitHub - valentindeaconu/terralist: Manage your modules and providers with a REST API

Manage your modules and providers with a REST API. Contribute to valentindeaconu/terralist development by creating an account on GitHub.

https://github.com/valentindeaconu/terralist

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