Terraform with Safety Nets: CICD in the world of IaC - Robert Hafner, DevOpsDays Chicago 2025

In this talk we’ll explore how to integrate Terraform with CI/CD tools to create safety nets for your infrastructure. You’ll learn best practices and tools for combining infrastructure as code with continuous integration; ensuring consistency, improving security, and reducing errors. Whether you’re getting started or optimizing your current setup, this session will provide actionable insights to enhance your Terraform and CI/CD workflows.

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1. Terraform with Safety Nets CICD in the world of IaC
2. Who is this guy I used to have hair
3. What is Terraform Hashicorp Marketing Images
4. Terraform Example
5. Running It
6. Maybe we should test this terraform apply . . .
7. Pain Points Yay stock photos!
8. Testing with Terratest
9. Terraform has native testing now!
10. Terraform’s Testing Framework also has Mocks
11. Automate and Enforce Github Marketing Photo
12. Test All The Versions!
13. Tools: Trivy and Checkov
14. Tools: Snyk Snyk Marketing Images They didn’t pay me for this.
15. Tools: tflint
16. Tools: Formatting and Validation
17. Tools: Documentation
18. Precommit Framework
19. Templates with Cookiecutter
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