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Why is securing Terraform state files hard?
1 point by lexokoh on June 1, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Terraform stands out as one of the most reliable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to provision and manage cloud resources: write a few lines in a Terraform configuration file and spin up cloud services in minutes in any cloud provider.

But this ease-of-use also brings security challenges: a leak of your Terraform state files could reveal sensitive information, bring your infrastructure down, and ultimately hurt your reputation as a company. All it takes is an overworked colleague, and a single bad git commit.

You need to care. Let me know what you think https://onboardbase.com/blog/terraform/



Fails to contrast with the most common production solution which is to store state in a cloud bucket :/


Bad git commits can be reverted




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