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weekly.tf - Issue #106 - Cloud Governance with OPA and Terraform, Cloudflare, Terraform Providers on M1, Documenting modules, Ways to Access ECS, precloud

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Anton Babenko
February 01, 2023

Cloud Governance with OPA and Terraform

AB: Amazing person who is also curious about OPA/Python/Terraform I met last week, recommended these two articles by Stenio Ferriera. Thank you!

Cloud Governance Using Infrastructure as Code

A model for rationalizing cloud environments and ensuring consistency - reducing costs and increasing deployment speed and security.

compellingcloud.substack.com/p/cloud-governance-using-infrastructure

Navigating Safety: A Beginner's Guide to Implementing Terraform Guardrails with OPA

A gentle introduction to developing OPA policies for Terraform deployments

compellingcloud.substack.com/p/navigating-safety-a-beginners-guide

Cloudflare + Terraform

How Cloudflare uses Terraform to manage Cloudflare

Cloudflare uses the Cloudflare Terraform provider extensively to make changes to our internal accounts as easily as opening a pull request.

blog.cloudflare.com/terraforming-cloudflare-at-cloudflare

Terraform Providers on Mac M1

AB: Article by Corrado Ignoti featuring an instrumental project by kreuzwerker.

Use m1-terraform-provider-helper to compile Terraform providers for Mac M1

I won’t repeat it, Apple darwin_arm64 architecture is a disruptive event.

corradoignoti.medium.com/use-m1-terraform-provider-helper-to-compile-terraform-providers-for-mac-m1-94b0808f826b

Other articles:

Part 04 - Documenting Terraform Modules

The quality of documentation determines the effectiveness of a terraform module.

medium.com/@vighnesh_prakash/part-04-documenting-terraform-modules-9e284d692d8

The Many Ways to Access ECS

The common wisdom is that you should assume AWS services are not secure by default.

blog.symops.com/2023/01/18/ecs-access

Open-source projects

tinystacks/precloud

An open-source command line interface that runs checks on infrastructure as code to catch potential deployment issues before deploying.

github.com/tinystacks/precloud

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