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AWS Introduces Security Analytics Bootstrap to Perform Security Investigations
AWS recently announced Security Analytics Bootstrap, an open source framework to perform security investigations on AWS service logs using an Amazon Athena analysis environment.
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Terraform 1.0 Release Adds Stability Guarantees and an Improved Upgrade Experience
HashiCorp announced the release of the 1.0 version of Terraform. This release provides an improved upgrade experience and significant improvements in cross-compatibility.
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CDK for Terraform Adds Go Support and Improves Asset Construction
Hashicorp recently released version 0.4 of their CDK for Terraform. The CDK allows for writing Terraform configurations in a number of programming languages including C#, Python, TypeScripts, and Java. This release adds experimental support for using Go to write Terraform configurations. Also included are enhanced support for Terraform modules and asset construction.
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Bridgecrew's Yor Provides Automated Tagging for Infrastructure as Code
Bridgecrew recently released Yor, their open-source tool for automated infrastructure as code tagging. Yor automatically adds tags to infrastructure configurations which are then applied to the running cloud resources, simplifying connecting the active resources back to the code that created them. Yor currently supports Terraform, CloudFormation, and Serverless.
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AWS CloudFormation Guard Adds Type Blocks, Filtering, and Reusable Rules
AWS released version 2 of CloudFormation Guard, their open source tool for validating CloudFormation templates. This release introduces a number of new features including type blocks, support for Conjunctive Normal Form, filters, and named rules. Guard enables writing policy-as-code that can then be used to validate any well-formed JSON or YAML file.
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Cloudflare Improves Automated Terraform Generation Tool
Cloudflare recently released an updated version of their cf-terraforming tool. This tool streamlines generating Terraform HCL from existing Cloudflare resources. The new release simplifies the generation process and introduces changes to better future proof the tool.
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Consul-Terraform-Sync Enables Automating of Common Networking Tasks
HashiCorp has moved Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) into full general availability. CTS allows for the definition of tasks as Terraform modules that can be run as services are added or removed from Consul. CTS is part of a solution called Network Infrastructure Automation (NIA) which focuses on automating day two network tasks such as updating load balancer pools or firewall policies.
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HashiCorp Terraform Adds Concise Diff Formatter and Sensitive Data Obfuscation
Hashicorp has released Terraform 0.14 into general availability. The release introduces a new concise diff format that limits the output to only the elements that are changing. Other improvements include the ability to hide sensitive data and produce lockfiles for provider dependencies.
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driftctl : a Tool to Detect Infrastructure Drifts
The CloudSkiff team released an open source tool called driftctl which can detect drift in Terraform managed infrastructure.
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Amazon Announces New Command Line Interface Tool AWS Copilot
Recently, Amazon announced a new command-line interface tool called AWS Copilot, which allows customers to develop, release, and operate containerized applications on AWS. With a single command, customers can create all the infrastructure and artifacts necessary to run a service on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate.
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Cloud Development Kit Can Now Generate Terraform Configurations Using TypeScript and Python
AWS, HashiCorp, and Terrastack collaborated to release a preview of the CDK for Terraform, or cdktf. Developers can use programming languages like Python or Typescript to manage infrastructure as code. cdktf generates a Terraform configuration in JSON. Also, cdktf supports any existing modules and providers from the Terraform registry to deploy resources to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
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AWS Open-Sources CloudFormation Compliance Analyzer
AWS has announced the preview release of CloudFormation Guard, an open-source CLI tool to enforce compliance policies against CloudFormation templates. cfn-guard provides a lightweight, declarative syntax for defining rules. It supports lists, wildcards, regex,and declaration of variables, and can work with CloudFormation intrinsic functions.
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Pulumi Releases Version 2.0 with New Policy as Code Tool
Pulumi announced the release of version 2.0 of their open source infrastructure as code platform. This release includes a new policy as code system called CrossGuard. Also included are improvements for moving pre-existing systems into Pulumi.
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Chef Infra 16 Released with Resource Partials and YAML Support
Chef has announced the release of Chef Infra 16 with a number of new features to improve creating, customizing, and updating Chef policies. This release includes YAML support for recipes, new functionality to reduce code duplication, and improvements to how Chef Infra handles mixed custom resources.
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AzureRM Terraform Provider 2.0 Released with Custom Timeouts and Improved Resource Importing
HashiCorp announced the release of version 2.0 for the AzureRM Terraform Provider. This release includes an overhaul of how virtual machines and virtual machine scale set resources are described, an introduction of custom timeouts, and the removal of a number of deprecated resources. There are also changes to improve how existing resources are handled while running terraform apply.