Keeping track of your passwords is already challenging in your personal life. It can be more difficult when you want to build and deploy secure applications in the cloud. Today we’ll show you a few ways of managing secrets in your Terraform deployment. We’ll teach you about common pitfalls like the random_password resource and more appropriate alternatives.
When deploying AWS infrastructure via Terraform, the usage of long-term IAM credentials is often the go-to method. Even though convenient, long-term credentials and secrets can pose a serious security risk to your organization if leaked. This post will sh
Managing security groups and their rules in AWS infrastructure can become cumbersome and error-prone as your environment grows. In this blog post, I introduce a Terraform solution that simplifies this process by using a Markdown table to define security g
When deciding which Infrastructure as Code tool to use for deploying resources in AWS, Terraform is often a favored choice and should therefore be a staple in every DevOps Engineer’s toolbox. While Terraform can increase your team’s performanc
In an ever-changing AWS environment, maintaining manually created architecture diagrams can be challenging. For this reason, I decided to find an automated solution for generating diagrams based on the Terraform State File. In this blog post, I will intro
In some rare cases it is important to know on which Operating System Terraform is being executed. Since there is (yet) no functionality that solves this by Terraform this hack can help in these situations.