Introduction to Cloud Compliance and Governance for DevOps
What is Cloud Compliance? Cloud compliance and governance help organizations enjoy the benefits of cloud technologies while ensuring data privacy, security, and integrity. To reduce operational and legal risk, ensure your cloud environment meets all business regulations. For example, this will help reassure customers and partners that you are a trustworthy company. Cloud compliance is […]
Terraform tolist: Convert and Handle Lists Like a Pro
Terraform tolist aka tolist() function is a handy tool for converting data into lists. It helps you ensure your configurations are clean and error-free. You can use tolist() to loop through resources or shape outputs. Let’s look at how it works and when to use it. 📚 Related Reading: 👉 Terraform Map Usage Explained: Learn […]
Terraform Map: When and How to Use Them Effectively
Terraform Map is a simple key-value data structure. It allows you to define a list of related configuration values in one place. You can reuse these values later in your Terraform stack. 📚 Related Reading: 👉 Terraform tolist: Learn how to define and use tolist() 👉👉 New to Terraform Variables?: 101 Guide and Best Practices […]
AWS Atlantis at Scale: How to Streamline Terraform Workflows
As cloud infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, many DevOps teams use AWS with Atlantis to automate Terraform workflows. This open-source tool links Git pull requests to Terraform operations. It helps teams improve Infrastructure as Code practices across different environments. It also helps maintain governance on a large scale. Terraform is widely adopted for provisioning AWS infrastructure—but […]
Terraform AWS Automation: Scalable Best Practices
Terraform has become essential for automating and managing AWS infrastructure. It is a tool called Infrastructure as Code (IaC). It helps DevOps teams manage and set up AWS assets in a cost-effective way. Terraform AWS provider is designed to interact with AWS, allowing teams to use code to provision AWS resources such as EC2 instances, […]
FedRAMP Compliance for Cloud and DevOps
If your organization offers cloud products or services to U.S. federal agencies, you need to follow security standards. These standards are called FedRAMP. FedRAMP stands for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. It is a government-wide program. FedRAMP offers a standard way to assess, authorize, and monitor the security of cloud services for federal […]
How AWS Security Hub Enforces Cloud Governance at Scale
The transition to the cloud has also been accompanied by a growing need for effective cloud governance. While it brings benefits such as cost savings, flexibility, and scalability, it also introduces challenges. The planning for security, compliance, and governance in the cloud can become very difficult due to numerous services, infrastructure configurations, and regulatory requirements. AWS […]
Automating NIS2 Compliance for DevOps Teams
If your organization provides essential or important services in the EU, you know that you need to comply with the recently revised Network Information Services Directive – commonly known as NIS2. However, you might be less clear on where DevOps supports NIS2 compliance. In this blog, we will explore how DevOps can help businesses follow […]
How to Use Terraform Variables: Best Practices
Imagine you are using your favorite IaC tool – Terraform, to deploy infrastructure for three environments: development, staging, and production. Each environment needs its own configurations, resource names, tags, and other customizations, however the underlying architecture remains the same. Without Terraform variables, you would create copies of the same configurations with minor changes in values. […]
