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.
ControlMonkey’s Terraform CI/CD solution helps cloud engineering teams. It offers a simple way to validate, plan, and deploy infrastructure changes. All of this comes from a central source of truth. With ControlMonkey, engineers can easily apply cloud policies. This includes 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 had to create Stacks manually for new folders or paths in their Git repository. This was necessary for those Stacks to be part of the infrastructure CI/CD process.
New: Automatic Detection and Creation of Terraform Stacks
Now, with “Stack Auto-discovery,” ControlMonkey will find any new folder or path in the Git repository. It will then automatically create the Stack for 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 and a new folder. They also make a PR. ControlMonkey gives them instant feedback 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.
TL;DR – Terraform Stacks and ControlMonkey
To summarize, “Stack auto-discovery” provides an additional layer of automation to your GitOps. It makes sure that all your Terraform code is tested and checked before it goes to production. This reduces the chance of mistakes and misconfigurations.
Automating the whole process makes daily tasks easier. It also boosts 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.
