What is Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) is a solution provided by AWS that leverages Terraform to automate and manage the creation and configuration of AWS accounts. It is designed to streamline the account provisioning process, enforce consistent configurations, and ensure governance and compliance across multiple AWS accounts. It may … Continue reading Uninstalling Account Factory for Terraform (AFT)
Category: IaC
Studying for the GitHub Foundations Exam?
Do you wish to obtain the GitHub Foundations certification? Use the following tools to help you pass! Why I pursued the certification I suppose many factors drive an individual to pursue IT certifications. These include skill validation, career opportunities, job requirements, increased credibility, or professional growth and development. Recently, I took the GitHub Foundations exam … Continue reading Studying for the GitHub Foundations Exam?
Using AWS’s IaC Generator to Rescue Manual Deployments
In their eagerness to launch a cloud initiative, there are still organizations that deploy new environments and resources from the AWS console. While they may believe it leads to a quick win, the reality is different. Background I spoke with an organization recently that had deployed all of their AWS resources from the console. I … Continue reading Using AWS’s IaC Generator to Rescue Manual Deployments
Autogenerate Documentation with terraform-docs and GitHub Actions
Using terraform-docs to limit my exposure to Markdown while also providing updated documentation when I do code commits?!?! Screenshots to Markdown At some point pretty early in my IT career, I started taking screenshots of the work I was doing. Initially, I did this to reinforce in my own mind, the steps required to configure … Continue reading Autogenerate Documentation with terraform-docs and GitHub Actions