Category: GitHub Actions

Amazon S3-SNS-Lambda Event-Driven Architecture with Terraform

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When development teams need to process thousands of file uploads daily across multiple applications, traditional polling-based monitoring systems create significant operational overhead and cost inefficiencies. Manual file-processing workflows can't scale to meet modern application demands, leading to delayed processing, wasted resources, and potential data loss during peak loads. Event-driven architecture solves this challenge by automatically … Continue reading Amazon S3-SNS-Lambda Event-Driven Architecture with Terraform

Automate ephemeral workspaces in HCP Terraform using the TFE provider

Automate ephemeral workspaces in HCP Terraform using the TFE provider
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Over the last several years, organizations worldwide have adopted Terraform as their primary tool for cloud infrastructure provisioning. To make the management and adoption of Terraform accessible, so that organizations can focus on building their applications, HashiCorp released HCP Terraform that handles the heavy lifting for scaling via secure state file management, CI/CD, and cross-stack … Continue reading Automate ephemeral workspaces in HCP Terraform using the TFE provider

Automate AWS resource import into Terraform state using GitHub Actions

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Organizations choose Terraform as their cloud infrastructure automation tool primarily for its features, such as idempotency, repeatability, and declarative configuration management, which enable teams to version-control their infrastructure alongside application code. However, many organizations don't have the luxury of starting fresh with Terraform. At times, organizations face scenarios in which critical cloud resources have already … Continue reading Automate AWS resource import into Terraform state using GitHub Actions

Automated GitHub Self-Hosted Runner Cleanup: Lambda Functions and Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks

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Running self-hosted GitHub runners on an Auto Scaling group enables organizations to have high availability during active development so that development teams do not have to compromise on runner availability. This allows development teams to have the same flexibility as that of a GitHub-hosted runner while also maintaining all the benefits of self-hosted runners, such … Continue reading Automated GitHub Self-Hosted Runner Cleanup: Lambda Functions and Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks

Build Secure GitHub Self-Hosted Runners on Amazon EC2 with Terraform

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GitHub, in addition to being an excellent version control system, offers workflow automation capabilities (Actions) that enable testing, building, and deploying code based on triggers such as code commits, pull requests, or scheduled events. These workflows run on runners, which are virtual or physical machines that execute these workflow steps.While GitHub offers free hosted runners … Continue reading Build Secure GitHub Self-Hosted Runners on Amazon EC2 with Terraform

Automate AWS Lambda Deployment with Docker Images, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

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AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets cloud application development teams run code without provisioning or managing servers. While Lambda natively supports several programming languages, developers often face limitations with dependency management and runtime constraints. This is where Docker containers come to the rescue. By packaging the Lambda function as a Docker image, … Continue reading Automate AWS Lambda Deployment with Docker Images, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

Configure DNSSEC for Amazon Route 53 hosted zone using Terraform

Configure DNSSEC for Amazon Route 53 hosted zone using Terraform
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DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) is a security protocol that adds cryptographic signatures to DNS records. This ensures that users are connecting to legitimate websites rather than malicious ones. It also helps prevent attacks like DNS spoofing or cache poisoning by verifying the authenticity and integrity of DNS responses. Amazon Route 53 is a … Continue reading Configure DNSSEC for Amazon Route 53 hosted zone using Terraform

Automate Amazon Route 53 hosted zone, ACM, and Load Balancer provisioning with Terraform and GitHub Actions

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AWS provides seamless integration to manage secure traffic routing through an Amazon Route 53 hosted zone to an Application Load Balancer (ALB), using a secure certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). I build upon a previously discussed use case such that by the end of this note, you'll have the concept of creating an ALB … Continue reading Automate Amazon Route 53 hosted zone, ACM, and Load Balancer provisioning with Terraform and GitHub Actions

Automate Terraform Modules README Generation with terraform-docs and GitHub Actions

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Terraform modules are essential building blocks for reusing Terraform configurations. For a Terraform module to be successful, ease of use and discoverability are key. Since creating a Terraform module also goes through a development and maintenance cycle, storing that in a GitHub repository is convenient. By doing so, Organizations improve collaboration, increase transparency, and enhance … Continue reading Automate Terraform Modules README Generation with terraform-docs and GitHub Actions

Provision AWS Resources with GitHub and HCP Terraform

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HCP (HashiCorp Cloud Platform) Terraform is a managed service that allows cloud infrastructure engineers to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using Terraform securely, efficiently, and in an automated manner. It eliminates the need to maintain a Terraform infrastructure, such as the underlying execution environment and state management. It provides a hassle-free way to manage cloud … Continue reading Provision AWS Resources with GitHub and HCP Terraform