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Cost Implications of Infrastructure Drift: Reducing Cloud Costs with Terraform Drift Detection

Cost Implications of Infrastructure Drift: Reducing Cloud Costs with Terraform Drift Detection

In the IaC world – infrastructure drift refers to a situation where the actual state of the infrastructure differs from the desired state defined in your IaC configuration, such as a Terraform/OpenTofu configuration. Drift can occur due to a variety of factors, including manual interventions, updates from other services, or

The Critical Role of Audit Logs in Terraform Automation

The Critical Role of Audit Logs in Terraform Automation

Infrastructure as Code has revolutionized the way organizations in the enterprise manage and deploy their IT infrastructure, with Terraform/OpenTofu standing out as a popular tool for defining and provisioning infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. This was also reflected in the latest GitHub Octoverse report, here's a quote

Production Ready Atlantis Alternative for Terraform CI/CD automation within GitHub Actions (5 Minute Setup Time)

Production Ready Atlantis Alternative for Terraform CI/CD automation within GitHub Actions (5 Minute Setup Time)

Managing Terraform workflows efficiently can be challenging, especially when working with a team. While Atlantis has been a popular choice for Terraform collaboration, it comes with its own set of complexities and maintenance overhead. Enter Digger: a robust, production-ready atlantis alternative for terraform automation that integrates seamlessly with GitHub Actions,

How to manage Terragrunt Monorepos efficiently?

How to manage Terragrunt Monorepos efficiently?

When working with large monorepos, managing Terragrunt plans can become overwhelming. Each project generating a comment in the pull request can result in a flood of information, making it challenging to track changes effectively. This is where Digger's feature to group plans by the source module comes in

How to Run Terraform in Buildkite CI?

How to Run Terraform in Buildkite CI?

What is Buildkite? Buildkite is a powerful CI/CD platform designed for flexibility. It enables development teams to automate their build, test, and deployment processes using a customizable pipeline. One of Buildkite's features is its ability to run self-hosted agents, which can be deployed on any infrastructure, including

Automatically Generating Terraform Projects with Digger’s Generate Projects Feature

Automatically Generating Terraform Projects with Digger’s Generate Projects Feature

Developers looking for efficiency and automation to simplify project setup and deployment is (supposed to be) a “need” we already know about. Recognizing this need, we introduced a a functionality in Digger, tailored to enhance project initialization and setup for Terraform projects. This functionality, known as generate_projects, emerged from

Deploying an LLM App to AWS using Open Source Tools

Deploying an LLM App to AWS using Open Source Tools

Overview In this article, we will explore how to deploy a RAG chatbot app that interacts with large language models(LLM’s) to a cloud provider such as AWS using GitHub Actions, OpenTofu, and Digger. We were extremely inspired by Wenqi Glantz' article and thought of creating a version

Top self-hosted runner solutions for GitHub Actions.

Top self-hosted runner solutions for GitHub Actions.

While talking to users using Digger in GitHub Actions, we see a lot of compliance heavy enterprises relying on Self Hosted runners. We decided to compile a list of available solutions out there, to help present the options available before a decision is made. Let's dive in: Actions

Digger's low-level CLI API

Digger's low-level CLI API

This was meant to be just another feature announcement post. Something along the lines of “you can now run Digger CLI on your laptop; here’s why this is cool” kind of post. But as I started writing it I realised that why we built this feature is just as

How to run Terraform in your Gitlab CI/CD pipeline?

How to run Terraform in your Gitlab CI/CD pipeline?

This is something that we get asked very often. Integrating Terraform into GitLab CI clearly offers a streamlined approach to manage and automate infrastructure deployment, and infra engineers are always curious and keen to POC this to their peers. The reason is clear - cloud credentials never leave the privileged

Does Digger’s Orchestrator Backend need to be accessible publicly?

Does Digger’s Orchestrator Backend need to be accessible publicly?

We often get asked this question. The answer is simple - the orchestrator backend for Digger does not necessarily need to be publicly accessible, but it does need to interact with GitHub to trigger CI jobs. So basically, whether you choose to self-host Digger or use the managed Digger Cloud

Lessons from launching our devtool 14 times on product hunt

Lessons from launching our devtool 14 times on product hunt

We wanted to document learnings from launching our devtool (and multiple acquisition products) over 14 times on Product Hunt, and that is what this article seeks to do. We have learned a ton in that period (May 2022 - Jan 2024) and also pivoted 4 times in the process. This

DIY Terraform Cloud, Part 1 - The Game Plan

DIY Terraform Cloud, Part 1 - The Game Plan

What would it take to migrate away from Terraform Cloud? After Hashicorp moved to resource-based pricing and BSL license last year, this question is on the roadmaps of many infrastructure teams. This article outlines the scope of such a migration. In this article I will describe the main aspects of

How we are designing digger to support multiple CI systems

How we are designing digger to support multiple CI systems

This is part 1 of a series which discusses how we architected digger cli to support multiple ci systems whilst making the code readable, testable and extendable. We will first discuss how digger was implemented to extend to multiple CI systems and then later we will discuss how we extended

How Open ID Connect works in GitHub Actions (illustrated)

How Open ID Connect works in GitHub Actions (illustrated)

I first learned about Open ID Connect (OIDC) while working on digger, an IaC automation tool. The main component of Digger is a cli which integrates directly in your CI system of choice. The first time we approached implementing oidc we were lazy and decided to leverage the github action

OpenTofu Commands Guide

OpenTofu Commands Guide

Introduction OpenTofu offers a versatile command-line interface for managing your infrastructure. With a diverse range of commands, you can initiate, validate, and manipulate configurations with ease. Command Basics: Run the tofu command by itself to get a list of available commands and their purposes. The general structure is: tofu [global

How to Deploy an s3 bucket using Terraform via GitHub Actions in 6 steps

How to Deploy an s3 bucket using Terraform via GitHub Actions in 6 steps

Deploying an Amazon S3 bucket using Terraform via GitHub Actions allows you to automate your infrastructure as code process. Here's a step-by-step tutorial: 1. Setting up your Terraform Configuration main.tf: provider "aws" { region = "us-west-1" version = "~> 3.0" } resource "aws_

OpenTofu - Alpha release.

OpenTofu - Alpha release.

Today, after weeks of work, is OpenTofu's alpha release! What you can expect with OpenTofu v1.6.0-alpha1 As mentioned in the v1.6.0 alpha release note, the release: - is a drop-in replacement, so you can take it for a spin in your existing projects -

Why does the BSL license get so much hate from developers?

Why does the BSL license get so much hate from developers?

Let’s start with a bit of history. According to Maria DB, the creators of the Business Source License, ”BSL is a new alternative to closed source or open core licensing models. Under BSL, the source code is always publicly available. Non-production use of the code is always free, and

How to run Terraform within your CI/CD pipeline - Resource Hub

How to run Terraform within your CI/CD pipeline - Resource Hub

The following resources have been collated to help IaC users get a better understanding of how Infrastructure as Code can be run within their CI/CD system of choice. Do have a read! Circle CI 1. How to run Terraform from Circle CI by Anton Putra 2. Tom Hipwell @ Bulb

How to run Terraform in your Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.

How to run Terraform in your Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.

Running Terraform in Jenkins involves setting up a Jenkins job or pipeline to automate your infrastructure provisioning and management. Here are the general steps to run Terraform in Jenkins: Prerequisites * Install Jenkins: If Jenkins is not already installed, you need to install it on a server or a suitable environment.

GitHub PR Automation for Terraform - Challenges

Challenges Encountered in PR driven workflows for Terraform Collaboration

Terraform has gained significant popularity over the last few years. With increased adoption amongst SRE, platform and DevOps practioners, many teams have encountered challenges in setting up effective PR driven workflows for Terraform collaboration. In this article, we will explore some of the pain points that arise during collaboration with

How to implement Terraform automation within GitHub Actions for your B2B SaaS tool

We all start using terraform as a CLI tool on our local machine to bootstrap our initial infrastructure. We of course manage the tf state somewhere in a bucket within our cloud account. This works great as a small team with limited infrastructure needs. But as our company grows and

Migrating Terraform Backend to Amazon S3 and DynamoDB: A Guide

Terraform’s recent move to the resources under management pricing model has frustrated a lot of users. As one user on this reddit thread remarked: The pricing on Terraform literally just jumped to almost same as we are paying for the AWS resources it manages.We’re on the free

Introducing Digger v4.0

Launching Digger Pro & a brief note on our iterative journey so far We have been building Digger for over 2 years with multiple iterations in between. Today we are launching Digger v4.0 - An Open Source GitOps tool for Terraform. A brief history of our journey: 🚜 Digger Classic