Terraform Techniques & Best Practices: Security

Terraform security is paramount in ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of infrastructure deployments. By prioritizing security at every stage of the infrastructure lifecycle, organizations can confidently manage their resources with Terraform while mitigating risks effectively. In this course, learn how Terraform security scanning and compliance checks work, along with infrastructure auditing, state and backend management, and sentinel policies. Next, explore the importance of least privilege in Terraform and how HashiCorp Vault infrastructure secrets integrate with Terraform. Finally, discover how to implement security scanning and compliance checks, state management, infrastructure secret management, and implementation of the least privilege principle and Terraform Sentinel policies. After completing this course, you will be able to secure your Terraform infrastructure.