(This is part of an open ended series of posts where I write down random things I feel are sharable from the years of mailing lists I’ve not caught up on…)
Alright. We’re all caught up on Terraform Weekly now.
- Terraform In Depth – Oooo! New book! From a reputable publisher at that. The one I have currently doesn’t have any of the modern patterns in it
- Terraform Proverbs
- Systematically Terraforming a Brownfield of Cloud Infrastructure – And experience report. If I get back into Terraform, it is likely helping startups get their ‘built fast to scale’ infrastructure under control so more of these please.
- Learning ECS the fun way ~ Hosting a Minecraft Server – When I did this a decade+ ago I just spun up an EC2 instance as ECS was just a twinkle in someone’s eye
- Steps to Break Up a Terralith – I mostly just like the word ‘terralith’ as it describes a lot of my code.
- Using Ephemeral Resources in Terraform – For passwords, etc.
- From SOC 2 to SRE: Operationalizing Compliance in High-Speed DevOps Environments – How to not make a farce of your SOC 2
- How to deploy Amazon Inspector2 at scale using Terraform. – Inspector and friends are too neglected. ‘Ooooo, scary vendor lock-in’ – no, its using vendor tools for the vendor. We’ll ignore that it is AWS and 2 pizza box teams and the inherit product problems that it introduces…
- Terramaid – infrastructure to mermaid
- How to Deploy a Tetris Game on AWS ECS with Terraform – See mincraft above, but for tetris
- Managing AWS Tags – Tags are [shockingly] hard
- Terraform Safety - Keep Resources Safe from Accidental Deletion – And read your plans! They are not there for funsies!
- 17 Key Considerations Before Designing Terraform Modules – Love a checklist
- Detect inappropriate images in S3 with AWS Rekognition + Terraform – Content moderation is something I need to worry about with Events In Plain Sight
- Stop AWS Bill Shock: Build an Automated Cost Guardian with Terraform in 10 Minutes – Another thing I need to deal with
- Terraform governing with OPA - Policy enforcement with an actual example and how to integrate it into CI pipelines. I think this was the missing piece for me around this whole policy movement
- Make Non-Compliant Terraform Impossible With compliance.tf – Another player in the compliance space
- Understanding the Terraform ignore_changes Lifecycle Block – Know how the rules work before you break them
- Automating Route 53 DNS Updates with Terraform When ALBs Are Reprovisioned – I need coffee to actually parse this, but seems clever. Remember, it is /always/ DNS.