Terraform by itself automates a lot of things: it creates, changes, and versions your cloud resources. Although many teams run Terraform locally (sometimes with wrapper scripts), running Terraform in CI/CD can boost the organization’s performance and ensure consistent deployments.
In this article, I would like to review different approaches to integrating Terraform into generic deployment pipelines.
Where to store the Terraform code Storing Terraform code in the same repository as the application code or maintaining a separate repository for the infrastructure?...
AWS CloudShell
A simple but cool announcement from AWS — AWS CloudShell. A tool for ad-hoc AWS management via CLI directly in your browser.
I like when AWS releases something simple to understand and yet powerful.
So it is not another DevOps Guru, believe me :)
Yes, this is similar to the shells that GCE and Azure have. No, you can’t access your instances from it, so it’s not a jump server (bastion host)....
Terraform CLI shortcuts
Here is some CLI shortcuts I use day-to-day to simplify and speed-up my Terraform workflow. Requirements — bash-compatible interpreter, because aliases and functions described below will work with bash, zsh and ohmyzsh.
In order to use any of described aliases of functions, you need to place it in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file (or any other configuration file you have for your shell).
Then just source this file, for example: source ~/....
