Terraform has emerged as the infrastructure as code (IAC) tool of choice for organizations due to its intuitive approach to infrastructure provisioning, declarative syntax, extensive provider ecosystem, and robust CI/CD integration. In my previous note, we learned how to securely store secrets in AWS Secrets Manager using Terraform and GitHub Actions. But there’s a critical … Continue reading Eliminate sensitive values from Terraform state using write-only attributes
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Manage sensitive variables in Amazon EC2 user data with Terraform and PowerShell
If you have worked with Amazon EC2 user data, you'd have noticed a shortcoming in the approach -the inability to pass command-line arguments to the user data script at run time. Let me explain why I believe that to be a problem. User data is a capability associated with an Amazon EC2 instance as part … Continue reading Manage sensitive variables in Amazon EC2 user data with Terraform and PowerShell

