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weekly.tf - Issue #90 - Automate everything with Terraform, Data Mesh on GCP, Crossplane, Deprecating AWS CloudFormation
Elliot Graebert explains why the power of Terraform is in the underlying framework. Automating your ticket queue with self-service Terraform repositories works for more use cases than you might think. Slack, Jira, GitHub... The sky's the limit.
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GitHub CI/CD pipeline design choices for deploying Terraform code to GCP data domain β bh3r1th.medium.com
Bharath N shares multiple designs for CI/CD deployment pipelines that they use when building on the GCP data platform using Data Mesh principles. AB: Bonus point from me for the diagrams.
Sebastien Prune wrote a very good comparison with Terraform on what Crossplane can do and what kind of providers it has in 2022 (a lot).
Benjamin Riou explains why they decided to deprecate AWS CloudFormation in favor of Terraform and how did they switch smoothly.
Open-source projects
A command line tool that validates AWS IAM Policies in a Terraform template against AWS IAM best practices.
Generate valid Terraform configuration from the state. AB: Worth keeping an eye on the project before such functionality exists in the Terraform core.
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