Today, we are happy to announce the latest enhancement to our Terraform CI/CD solution – “Stack Auto-discovery.”
This capability detects new folders and branches in your Git repositories and automatically creates stacks in the ControlMonkey platform.
To recall, ControlMonkey’s Terraform CI/CD solution provides cloud engineering teams with a simple yet controlled way to validate, plan, and deploy all infrastructure changes from a centralized source of truth.
With ControlMonkey, engineers can easily enforce cloud policies such as tagging, security, and compliance in the infrastructure CI/CD process.
By proactively standardizing their cloud environments, they can prevent misconfigurations from reaching production.
Until today, ControlMonkey users who created new folders or paths in their Git repository had to manually create those Stacks in ControlMonkey for them to be part of the infrastructure CI/CD process.
Now, with “Stack Auto-discovery,” any new folder or path created in the Git repository will be detected by ControlMonkey, which will then automatically create the Stack representing it.
Any new Terraform code created will automatically be incorporated into the infrastructure CI/CD approval and testing process, ensuring that all resources align with the organization’s standard.
A classic use case is when a new DevOps engineer is onboarded and tasked with creating cloud environments. They create a new branch, new folder, and a PR, and automatically receive instant feedback from ControlMonkey on the following:
- Which resources are going to be created if this PR will be merged.
- Which of the organization’s Cloud Policies have passed or failed, and what is the reason behind it.
To summarize, “Stack auto-discovery” provides an additional layer of automation to your GitOps. It ensures that all of your Terraform code is tested and verified before it’s shipped to production, reducing the risk of misconfigurations and human errors.
Automating the entire process simplifies the day-to-day operations and improves the overall efficiency of the Cloud Engineering team.
The new capability supports Terraform, OpenTofu, and Terragrunt.
ControlMonkey’s Terraform Automation Platform dramatically changes how engineering teams standardize and deploy their cloud infrastructure.
Our Terraform experts are ready for a technical discussion whenever you are.
