Securing Terraform monorepo CI — engineering.mercari.com

Daisuke Fujita (also known as the creator of terraforming) describes the structure of Mercari's approach for Terraform code monorepo, problems associated with it, and solutions. AB: Highly recommend reading this if you are still debating whether you should do a monorepo or not. I prefer, monorepos for 99% of cases myself.

Introducing Platform Infra Team at Mercari — engineering.mercari.com

Detailed overview of Platform Infra Team structure and responsibilities at Mercari. AB: I am pretty sure, it will be helpful if you are building a similar team at your company. Also, make sure to check other articles under Developer Productivity Engineering Camp (use Google Translate to translate from Japanese, for e.g. "Automation of Terraform for AWS").

Terraform @ Scale - by Mason Huemmer — thecontinuousturning.substack.com

Scaling Security, Operations, and the Cloud with Terraform. AB: Another piece of very well structured content covering "What" and "How"!

Continuous Integration GCP Cloud Build With Terraform — medium.com

Razieh Akbari explains the way to set up GCP Cloud Build with Terraform. The source repository is here.

🇫🇷 Bienvenue - Terraform Best Practices — www.terraform-best-practices.com

Ce document a pour but de décrire systématiquement les bonnes pratiques dans l’utilisation de Terraform et de fournir des recommandations par rapport aux problèmatiques fréquemment rencontrées. AB: Kudos to Nicanor Foping for translating it in French. This ebook is already available in Spanish, Indonesian, English. Want to bring more translations? Contact me.

Open-source projects

suzuki-shunsuke/tfaction — github.com

GitHub Actions collection for Opinionated Terraform Workflow. AB: Highly recommend if you are using GH Actions!

ninadsp/thrift-vpn — github.com

Cheap Wireguard VPN server with AWS Spot Instances. Featuring Packer and Terraform.

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From Infrastructure as Code to Environment as Code – CompuZest

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has made managing infrastructure easier in a lot of ways, but there are many challenges that companies accept as the cost of adopting IaC, especially when scaling.

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