231: The CloudPod Takes the Highway to the Datazone

The Cloud Pod

Welcome to The Cloud Pod episode 231! This week Justin and Matthew are discussing updates to Terraform testing for code validation, some new tools from Docker, look into the now generally available AWS DataZone, and dig into the evolution of passkeys over at Google. Slide into the passenger seat and let’s check out this week’s cloud news.

Titles we almost went with this week:

• The Cloud Pod wants to validate your code
• The Cloud Pod can now test in parallel

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General News this Week:

01:17 Terraform 1.6 adds a test framework for enhanced code validation

• At Hashiconf this week, they announced Terraform 1.6 is now available for download.
• The most exciting feature? We’re so glad you asked!
  • The new terraform test framework that deprecates and replaces the previous experimental features added in 0.15.
• Terraform test allows authors to consistently validate the functionality of their configuration in a safe environment. Tests are written using familiar HCL syntax, so there is no need to learn a new language to get started.
• Config-Driven import introduced in Terraform 1.5 gets improvements to support variable driven ID attributes. Making it easier than ever to import existing items.
• Cli Improvements
• Several changes are coming to the S3 Backend remote state in this release to better align with the SDK and the official terraform AWS provider.
  • It should still work but you may receive warnings about deprecated attributes. May the odds be ever in your favor.
• You can check out the Testing Terraform overview page here, or the Write Terraform tests tutorial here.

03:22 Justin – “ One of the interesting things that, you know, that wasn’t part of this particular announcement is that they’re also adding an ability to use AI to help you with your test cases. And so basically the model, they built an LLM model to specifically trained on HCL and the Terraform test framework to help model authors begin testing their code.”

04:55 Docker debuts new tools for developing container applications

• Docker has released two new offerings: Docker Build and Docker Debug
  • These tools will help software teams develop containers faster.
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