Open Policy Agent for AWS and Terraform

While traditional Infrastructure as Code tools offer a multitude of benefits, they usually fail to meet the security and compliance requirements of modern security-focused organizations when managing infrastructure at scale. This post will show you how you can leverage Open Policy Agent and Policy as Code to automate security and compliance procedures as well as enforce custom policies across an organization at scale.

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Terraform OS Detection

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.

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Managing volatile Terraform Deployments with AWS CodeBuild and Step Functions

I was searching for an AWS-native solution that would deploy resources via Terraform, allow them to do some work, and then destroy them properly without leaving any orphaned resources. Also, multiple of those Terraform deployments needed to be live at the

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AWS announces Terraform Support for Service Catalog - is it any good?

Yesterday, AWS announced support for Terraform Open Source in Service Catalog. For me, this sounds like a game changer! Which is why I had to test it out immediately.

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Managing multiple stages with Terraform

Managing multiple environments in Terraform Introduction I recently started learning Terraform. For those who haven’t encountered it: Terraform is in essence a framework to describe Infrastructure as code by Hashicorp. When I began doing that, I was

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Building Lambda with terraform

Building Lambda Functions with Terraform Introduction Many of us use Terraform to manage our infrastructure as code. As AWS users, Lambda functions tend to be an important part of our infrastructure and its automation. Deploying - and especially building

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