weekly.tf - Issue #110 - Splitting a monolithic Terraform state, Azure Storage with Let's Encrypt, Terraform for unsupported resources, IAM assumed roles, terraform-workspaces-terragrunt-ansible, AWS SCPs, AWS SAM

Splitting a monolithic Terraform state

A technical challenge involving terraform state operations and cloud architecture.

medium.com/@calinflorescu3/splitting-a-monolithic-terraform-state-d26e866de629

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Other articles

Exposing Azure Storage on Domain Apex with Let's Encrypt SSL

Serge Smertin wrote a detailed post about exposing an Azure Storage Account through a top-level domain with the Let's Encrypt SSL certificate you can get for free. All via Terraform.

ssmertin.com/articles/exposing-azure-storage-on-domain-apex-with-letsencrypt-ssl

Writing Terraform for unsupported resources

TerraCurl is a utility Terraform provider that allows engineers to make managed and unmanaged API calls in their Terraform code.

www.hashicorp.com/blog/writing-terraform-for-unsupported-resources

Alternative Way Provision AWS Resources via Terraform

AB: Luthfi Anandra explains one of the alternatives for provisioning AWS IAM assumed roles resources via Terraform.

aws.plainenglish.io/alternative-way-provision-aws-resource-via-terraform-using-iam-assume-role-reference-c80a73e45f03

Open-source projects

neilpricetw/terraform-workspaces-terragrunt-ansible

Comparing options for handling environment config in Terraform and remaining DRY

github.com/neilpricetw/terraform-workspaces-terragrunt-ansible

aws-samples/aws-scps-with-terraform

Setup a template to easily create and apply AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs) with Terraform

github.com/aws-samples/aws-scps-with-terraform

devops-rob/terraform-provider-terracurl

A flexible Terraform provider for making API calls.

github.com/devops-rob/terraform-provider-terracurl

🔴 AWS SAM & Terraform — March 2nd, 2023

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