Martez Reed- 17 May, 2022
HashiCorp Terraform Checksum Verification
How do we verify that the Terraform binary we download is the same as the one HashiCorp produced? Ensuring the integrity of software is important to …
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Martez Reed
- 16 May, 2022
HashiCorp Terraform Code Signing
Signing software has become critically important given the recent supply chain attacks. How do we verify that the software we’re downloading is …
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Martez Reed
- 26 Nov, 2019
Puppet Bolt Vault Inventory Plugin
In this blog post we’ll look at the HashiCorp Vault plugin for Puppet Bolt that enables authentication credentials for Bolt to be retrieved from …
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Martez Reed
- 06 Oct, 2019
Puppet Bolt Terraform Inventory Plugin
HashiCorp Terraform is a popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that is used for provisioning virtual machines or cloud instances along with other …
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Martez Reed
- 10 Jul, 2019
Terraform Puppet Provisioner
HashiCorp Terraform 0.12.2 added official support for a Puppet provisioner. One caveat is that the provisioner is only available in 0.12.x of …
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Martez Reed
- 30 Oct, 2017
Terraform AWS S3 State Management Least Privilege
A very popular Terraform state management configuration is to utilize AWS S3 for state management and AWS DynamoDB for state locking. The problem is …
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Martez Reed
- 13 Oct, 2017
vSphere Immutable Infrastructure with Terraform
What is immutable infrastructure? Immutable infrastructure is the concept of utilizing an infrastructure component in an ephemeral manner. This means …