Learn how to enhance your Terraform code’s security by using Checkov for scanning. Our step-by-step guide walks you through the process, ensuring your infrastructure is secure and compliant. By Arun Lal.
As we discuss the growth of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), we encounter challenges related to security, quality, and testing, which are also critically important. To address these concerns, we can utilize static code analysis tools like Checkov.
This guide then covers:
- Infrastructure as code
- The need for IAC code analysis
- Checkov integrate with Terraform
- Checkov setup
- How to use custom policies?
- Checkov report
- Hard and soft fail
Most organizations have their own coding standards and regulations. When a developer writes a code, it should meet the organization’s criteria. For example, tags, proper descriptions, directory structure, etc. Compliance is also very important for organizations. It helps to avoid unnecessary resource provisioning in cloud environments. For example, in AWS different types of EC2 instances are available, and each instance’s costs are different. If someone provisions R5d.xLarge instance without the necessity, it will lead to excessive expense.
Combining these tools simplifies safer infrastructure provisioning in cloud environments, we can simply use this tool to scan the Terraform code or can integrate with CI/CD tools to automate the scanning process. Good read!
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