Sachin Chaurasiya

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#IaC

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Articles 3

Infrastructure as Code intermediate

IaC Security in CI/CD: Gates, Exceptions and Baselines

Put Checkov in front of terraform plan: a GitLab CI job on every merge request, a baseline so only new findings fail, a pass/fail policy by check ID, exceptions with reasons, reports in the MR, and branch protection.

12 min read
Infrastructure as Code intermediate

Scan Infrastructure as Code with Checkov

Run Checkov against Terraform with a public database, an open security group and an unprotected bucket; read the 22 findings and why they matter; fix them; then record the rest as documented skips.

12 min read
Infrastructure as Code intermediate

Secure Terraform Foundations: Pinning, State, Secrets and Review

The security foundations of a Terraform repository: pinned versions with a committed lock file, remote state with locking and access control, secrets kept out of source, least-privilege plan and apply roles.

11 min read

Tools 3

secure IaC scanner

Checkov

Static analysis for infrastructure as code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes and Dockerfiles.

deploy Infrastructure as code

Terraform

Infrastructure as code with a plan/apply workflow and a large provider ecosystem.

secure Vulnerability & misconfiguration scanner

Trivy

All-in-one scanner for container images, filesystems, IaC, Kubernetes and SBOMs.

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