DevOps Guide to Terraform Security

Terraform is a powerful tool that makes it easy to manage complex environments at scale. The versatility, declarative language, and the productivity gains of using the same infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling across multiple cloud providers have made Terraform one of the most popular tools for infrastructure provisioning.

While there are many benefits to using Terraform as part of your infrastructure provisioning workflow, there are also some key security considerations that we will cover in this paper, such as dependencies, secrets, secure collaboration, workflow, drift, and threats.