This tfsec release listed below adds support for ‘and’ and ‘or’ expressions, which got me thinking– We have a bunch of tools for doing static or semi-dynamic analysis of terraform code, each with their own way of modeling the policies being enforced. …

HashiTalks 2021 — events.hashicorp.com The next HashiTalks is coming up on February 17–18. This is the HashiCorp virtual conference that has been going on since since 2019, a different era. There is a schedule and registration form up, but not much else to go on. From the schedule it appears that the event…

Version 2.0 of the Kubernetes and Helm Providers — www.hashicorp.com The Kubernetes and Helm providers have both had a major upgrade. As you would expect from a semver major version bump, there are a lot of breaking changes. First, authentication is no longer allowed via the KUBECONFIG environment variable. Apparently I am not the only one who has accidentally…

Welcome to this week’s Terraform Weekly newsletter. Not a log of notable releases this week, but a few good overview articles about pipelines, testing and importing. Things we all care about. — — A note on the theme here: Terraform is a powerful way to do infrastructure as code —…

Thank you everyone for reading this newsletter and sending in links to be included. If you have something that you would like me to take a look at, please email me or respond to this email. driftctl github.com One of the major challenges when using Terraform to manage infrastructure is that…

Still a quiet time of year in the terraform world. As always, feel free to send me anything you think should be included in this newsletter -> ryan@theryanking.com. futurice/terraform-examples github.com A bunch rich, complicated terraform examples. A good place to go for some copy-pasta. 9 Newly Verified Terraform Providers www.hashicorp.com A bunch of providers are now…

Welcome to 2021, just like 2020, but a little more. Due to not doing this supposedly-weekly email the last few weeks of the year, we have a good backlog of stuff to cover. lambda-the-terraform-way github.com The author has clearly done the homework and built a thorough guide to using terraform to…

Terraform 0.14 is out, AWS re:invent is going on, us Americans are back from Thanksgiving holidays (not that anyone went anywhere to come “back” from). Isn’t it time for the end-of-the-year slow down? Terraform 0.14 General Availability www.hashicorp.com Terraform 0.14 GA is released. This cycle was shorter and there are fewer major changes than…

Back with another issue of the almost-weekly, mostly-terraform newsletter. To build these newsletters I spend a good amount of time trawling through aggregators like reddit, medium archives and hashicorp forums. But I doubt I catch everything that should be covered. Please always feel free to email me tips at ryan@theryanking.com…