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HashiCorp Released Version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes
Hashicorp recently released the version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes with a new feature: the ability to initiate workspace runs declaratively. The Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes was introduced in November 2023 with the goal to provide a Kubernetes-native experience while leveraging Terraform workflows
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Terraform 1.7 Adds Config-Driven Remove and Test Mocking Ahead of OpenTofu
Hashicorp announced the release of Terraform 1.7, a new version of the popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool. Terraform now supports config-driven remove capability, a safer way to remove resources from the managed stack’s state data. The new version also comes with mock providers and overrides, as well as several other enhancements in the test framework.
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Zurich Insurance Group's Journey with Scalable Account Vending and AWS Account Factory for Terraform
AWS recently highlighted Zurich Insurance Group's use of AWS Account Factory for Terraform, which enabled them to attain the desired performance parameters needed to facilitate the provisioning of more than 3000 accounts. Zurich Insurance Group streamlined its Cloud Adoption Strategy by using the Scalable Account Vending solution, automating the process of setting up new AWS environments easily.
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HashiCorp Enhances Proactive Secrets Discovery with HCP Vault Radar
Infrastructure automation software company HashiCorp has announced a limited beta phase for HCP Vault Radar, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based secrets discovery product. HCP Vault Radar is a secret scanning product that focuses on the proactive discovery of unmanaged or leaked secrets, allowing organizations to take swift action if secret information is exposed.
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HashiCorp Adds Automated Generation of Terraform Provider Code
HashiCorp has released a technical preview of their Terraform provider code generation toolset. This includes a new tool that generates Terraform provider code from an OpenAPI specification. The release also includes a tool that can generate Terraform plugin framework code from a provider code specification.
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OpenTofu 1.6.0 Now Generally Available: New Module Testing, Enhanced S3 Backend, and Many More
OpenTofu 1.6.0 is now generally available. A community-driven open-source fork of Terraform under the Linux Foundation, now offers a stable release with many features, including advanced testing features for configurations and modules, enhanced S3 state backend with new authentication methods, a new provider and module registry, and many more improvements and bug fixes.
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HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes Improves Scalability and Performance
HashiCorp has released v2 of their Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes. The Operator enables managing Terraform Cloud workspaces through a single Kubernetes custom resource. The release adds support for multiple customer resources, setting the watch scope to specific namespaces, improved synchronization, and newly exposed metrics.
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CloudWatch Introduces Best Practice Alarm Recommendations for 19 AWS Services
AWS has recently introduced "out-of-the-box" best practice alarm recommendations for Amazon CloudWatch. This new option is designed to improve observability on the AWS platform, allowing users to easily add alarms from the console and download templates for CloudFormation, Terraform, and the CLI.
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Terraform 1.6 Makes Testing Framework Generally Available
HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.6 with several new improvements including a new testing framework. Additional improvements include changes to config-driven import, Terraform Cloud CLI workflows, and the Amazon S3 backend. This version marks the first release of Terraform to be under the Business Source License v1.1 (BSL 1.1).
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Google Cloud Adds Service for Managing Terraform Deployments
Google Cloud announced last week the addition of Terraform as a managed service. The service, known as Infrastructure Manager, manages the deployment of Terraform configurations into Google Cloud. Infrastructure Manager provides an interface for querying the state of the deployment and resources as defined within the configuration.
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Terraform Cloud Supports Ephemeral Workspaces in Public Beta
Ephemeral workspaces allows their users to set timeouts to automatically destroy unused resources, reducing infrastructure costs and the effort required for manual resource clean-up. Ephemeral workspaces are now available in public beta on Terraform Cloud Plus.
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OpenTF Foundation Released OpenTF Manifesto
On August 15, OpenTF Foundation released the OpenTF Manifesto after the announcement by Hashicorp, on August 10, to change the license from Mozilla Public License (v2.0) (MPL) to Business Source License (v1.1) (BUSL), on all future Terraform releases.
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Improving Developer Efficiency with Policy Automation at DoorDash
DoorDash recently leveraged Open Policy Agent to enhance the efficiency of their developers. The infrastructure team at DoorDash observed several advantages from this, including quicker reviews of changes to infrastructure policies, more comprehensive tagging of resources, and a notable decrease in the number of incidents resulting from policy violations.
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HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License for All Products
HashiCorp, the maker of popular open source infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling such as Terraform and Vault, announced last week that it is changing its source code license from MPL 2.0 to the BSL 1.1 on all future releases of HashiCorp products. HashiCorp APIs, SDKs, and almost all other libraries will remain MPL 2.0. The initial community reaction has primarily been negative.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Deployment Stacks in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of deployment stacks in Azure, a new resource type for managing a collection of Azure resources as a single unit for faster update and delete (cleanup). In addition, it brings more granular capabilities for preventing unwanted changes to resources.