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weekly.tf - Issue #104 - Solutions in CDK/Terraform/Pulumi, Myths about -refresh-only, Terraform Book for Google Cloud, LocalStack, GitHub Actions, terraform-repl

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Anton Babenko
January 18, 2023

CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi

AB: Very long and detailed post by Brian Caffey shows the solutions in CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi to deploy not "Hello World" application.

My Infrastructure as Code Rosetta Stone - Deploying the same web application on AWS ECS Fargate with CDK, Terraform and Pulumi

I wrote three reusable infrastructure as code libraries to develop high-level abstractions for deploying containerized web apps on AWS ECS. This article will provide an overview of my experience working with CDK, Terraform and Pulumi and will cover how I use these libraries in automated infrastructure deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions

https://briancaffey.github.io/2023/01/07/i-deployed-the-same-containerized-serverless-django-app-with-aws-cdk-terraform-and-pulumi/

🙌 Sponsor - env0 🙌

terraform plan/apply -refresh-only

AB: Using -refresh-only argument is often tricky and not intuitive. Soon Hin Khor, Ph.D. explains it with lots of details.

Understanding ‘terraform plan/apply -refresh-only’, the myths and fixing drift

Quick Notes

https://medium.com/code-oil/understanding-terraform-plan-apply-refresh-only-the-myths-and-fixing-drift-5963207a1df8

📗 New Book! Terraform for Google Cloud Essential Guide: Learn how to provision infrastructure in Google Cloud securely and efficiently

AB: Bernd Nordhausen wrote a book about Terraform specifically for Google Cloud users. Please leave a review on Amazon - it will help Bernd very much.

Using terraform-aws-modules (EKS, VPC, IAM, ALB) + Karpenter

Building robust platform for containers part 2— Terraform EKS with Karpenter

In the first part of our series, we used Terraform to provision the EKS cluster for us and completed additional steps to configure Cillium.

https://blog.raftech.nl/building-robust-platform-for-containers-part-2-terraform-eks-with-karpenter-d7050c9cedd9

LocalStack + Terratest

Testing AWS Infrastructure Locally

How to create an integration test suite for AWS services with LocalStack

https://medium.com/@hdavidrosa/testing-aws-infrastructure-locally-880b1c05aaa6

GitHub Actions with Terraform and Google Cloud Platform

AB: Another "best" CD pipeline, but for GCP users by Sam Gallagher. I like that there are references to other helpful GitHub Actions in the post.

The “Best” Terraform CD pipeline with GitHub Actions

Continuous Deployment pipelines for Terraform are an essential component of safe cloud infrastructure management. Let’s take a look at…

https://medium.com/@gallaghersam95/the-best-terraform-cd-pipeline-with-github-actions-6ecbaa5f3762

Open-source projects

GitHub - alex067/tfstate: A wrapper around terraform state commands to provide guard rails 🔒

A wrapper around terraform state commands to provide guard rails 🔒 - GitHub - alex067/tfstate: A wrapper around terraform state commands to provide guard rails 🔒

https://github.com/alex067/tfstate

GitHub - paololazzari/terraform-repl: A terraform console wrapper for a better interactive console experience

A terraform console wrapper for a better interactive console experience - GitHub - paololazzari/terraform-repl: A terraform console wrapper for a better interactive console experience

https://github.com/paololazzari/terraform-repl

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