Tips & Tricks for the week

Static analysis is a key component of CI/CD, and that includes your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) codebases as well. If you use Terraform, you should be running tflint before running terraform.

It's pretty straightforward.

brew install tflint

Create a .tflint.rc for an AWS project in the root directory

config {
  force               = false
  call_module_type    = "local"
  disabled_by_default = false
}
plugin "terraform" {
  enabled = true
  preset  = "recommended"
}
plugin "aws" {
  enabled = true
  version = "0.29.0"
  source  = "github.com/terraform-linters/tflint-ruleset-aws"
  region  = "us-east-1"
}
rule "terraform_unused_declarations" {
  enabled = false
}

And run it with

tflint --init
tflint

It will show you the errors, and you can fix them before problems arise.

For more, see my blog post TFLint: Static Analysis for Terraform​

What this week has in store

This week, I'll continue exploring different ways to use LLMs that I host in my own Kubernetes cluster.

See you next week!

Mark C Allen

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