A little while back, I encountered an exciting use case requiring me to use GitHub Actions secrets. The use case was to create an AWS Secrets Manager secret resource using Terraform in a CI/CD pipeline. An AWS Secrets Manager secret is a resource to store secure credentials. In the past, I created an AWS Secrets … Continue reading Create AWS Secrets Manager secret using Terraform secure variables and GitHub Actions secrets
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Automate Terraform configuration scan with Checkov and GitHub Actions
Terraform enables developers to create cloud resources via a few lines of code. Hence, these developers must write code that is easy to understand and follows security best practices. Moreover, following best practices becomes a habit if there is a system to keep that in check. Checkov is a proven static analysis tool that checks for standard best practices in your … Continue reading Automate Terraform configuration scan with Checkov and GitHub Actions
CI-CD with Terraform and GitHub Actions to deploy to AWS
GitHub Actions is a CI/CD tool that can automate the provisioning of AWS resources using Terraform. Previously, I wrote a detailed post explaining the concepts associated with using Terraform to create an application load balancer that you can read here -add an application load balancer to Amazon EC2 using Terraform. In this note, I further … Continue reading CI-CD with Terraform and GitHub Actions to deploy to AWS
Create an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace using Terraform
In this note, I describe the steps to provision a new Amazon Managed Grafana workspace using the AWS Terraform provider. Grafana is an open-source observability tool to visualize data. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. Per AWS-Docs, Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed and secure … Continue reading Create an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace using Terraform
Create Amazon EC2 using Terraform
One of the first components I created on the AWS cloud was an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance by watching hands-on tutorials. Little did I know about the infrastructure bits that went behind that. In this note, I list the AWS infrastructure and the configurations I created to host an Amazon EC2 instance … Continue reading Create Amazon EC2 using Terraform