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Ansible Modules – How To Use Them Efficiently (Examples)
Next, we will go through an example of creating a custom module that takes as input a string that represents an epoch timestamp and converts it to its human-readable equivalent of type datetime in Python. You can find the code for this tutorial on this repository.
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Ansible Roles: Basics & How to Combine Them With Playbooks
This is an example play to try out our new webserver role. Let’s go ahead and execute this play. To follow along, you should first run the vagrant up command from the top directory of this repository to create our target remote host.
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Terraform Output Values : Complete Guide & Examples
Let’s examine how we can use all this in a real-world example. In this GitHub repository, we define the Terraform configuration for this example’s infrastructure. To follow along, you will need to install Terraform, have an AWS account ready, and authenticate with your AWS keys via the command line. Note that you might be charged a few dollars in your AWS account if you follow along.
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How to Use Different Types of Ansible Variables(Examples)
If you are still learning how to use Ansible, you might also find helpful the introductory Ansible Tutorial or Working with Ansible Playbooks blog posts. You can find this article’s code on this repository if you wish to follow along.
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Terraform Best Practices for Better Infrastructure Management
Our primary entry point is main.tf, and in simple use cases, we can add all our resources there. We define our variables in variables.tf and assign values to them in terraform.tfvars. We use the file outputs.tf to declare output values. You can find a similar example project structure here.
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A Deep Dive Into Terraform Static Code Analysis Tools: Features and Comparisons
Checkov Owner/Maintainer: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks (acquired in 2021) Age: First released on GitHub on March 31st, 2021 License: Apache License 2.0
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Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024
Checkov is another great tool that examines your Terraform files (.tf), parsing the configurations and evaluating them against a comprehensive set of predefined policies. It scans Terraform-managed infrastructure and detects misconfigurations that could lead to security issues or non-compliance with best practices and regulations.
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A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
Bridgecrew — Infrastructure as code (IaC) security powered by the open source tool - Checkov. The core Bridgecrew platform is free for up to 50 IaC resources.
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10 Ways for Kubernetes Declarative Configuration Management
Kustomize: It provides a solution to customize the Kubernetes resource base configuration and differential configuration without template and DSL. It does not solve the constraint problem itself, but needs to cooperate with a large number of additional tools to check constraints, such as Kube-linter, Checkov and kubescape.
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Top 10 terraform tools you should know about.
Checkov is a versatile static code analysis tool designed for infrastructure as code (IaC) and software composition analysis (SCA). It supports a wide range of technologies, including Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, and others, to detect security and compliance issues through graph-based scanning. Checkov also performs SCA scans, identifying vulnerabilities in open source packages and images by checking for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Additionally, it is integrated into Prisma Cloud Application Security, a platform that helps developers secure cloud resources and infrastructure-as-code files, enabling the identification, rectification, and prevention of misconfigurations throughout the development lifecycle.
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Understanding Container Security
For your Dockerfiles, you can also scan them. There are lots of tools that can check your Dockerfiles. They will validate if Dockerfile is compliant with Docker best practices such as not using root user, making sure a health check exists, and not exposing the SSH port. You can use Snyk and Checkov.
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Apim + function app & event grid
You could try https://www.checkov.io/
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Terraform Security Best Practices
We use https://www.checkov.io/ for this, it's very simple to get started with and works really well as PR quality gate
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How long have you guys actually had the title “platform engineer”? What other titles did you have before that, if any?
Once there is a CI pipeline for delivering infra changes you can add static code analysis tools (checkov) and even start testing changes (terratest)
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What are the best static analysis security testing tools for Terraform and infrastructure as code?
I just had a brief chat with one of the developers of Checkov and it sounds nice (and open source). I haven't had a chance to play with it, but if you want to it's at https://www.checkov.io/
What are some alternatives?
terraform-cost-estimation - Anonymized, secure, and free Terraform cost estimation based on Terraform plan (0.12+) or Terraform state (any version)
tfsec - Security scanner for your Terraform code [Moved to: https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec]
terratest - Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation
tflint - A Pluggable Terraform Linter
pre-commit-terraform - pre-commit git hooks to take care of Terraform configurations 🇺🇦
OPA (Open Policy Agent) - Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
tfenv - Terraform version manager
terrascan - Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.
Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
kics - Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.