Every few months, we send out a newsletter to all Gruntwork customers that describes all the updates we’ve made since the last newsletter and news from the DevOps industry. Note that many of the links below go to private repos in the Gruntwork Infrastructure as Code Library and Reference Architecture that are only accessible to customers. Hello Grunts, In the last few months, we added a number of major new features to Terragrunt, including catalog, scaffold, graph, structured logging, and telemetry. We also open sourced Boilerplate, our cross-platform project generator / scaffolding tool and ..read more

Just a few days ago, we announced two new Terragrunt features: terragrunt scaffold and terragrunt catalog. Today, you get three more features! In this blog post, you’ll learn about: Terragrunt graph: Run a command against the graph of dependencies. Structured logging: Output all logs in JSON format. Telemetry: Output traces and metrics in OpenTelemetry format. Let’s go through these one at a time. Terragrunt graph For a number of years, Terragrunt has supported terragrunt run-all <COMMAND> as a way to run the Terraform/OpenTofu command COMMAND against all modules in the ..read more

Standardize and speed up how you browse your module catalog and configure your modules for deployment In this blog post, I’m going to walk you through two powerful new features we’ve added to Terragrunt: terragrunt catalog: browse your module catalog. terragrunt scaffold: scaffold out files for configuring a module for deployment. We believe these two features will help you both (a) standardize how you manage and deploy your modules and (b) make it easier and faster for developers to configure modules for deployment. To see how, let’s see these features in action! These features a ..read more

An open source, cross-platform project generator / scaffolding tool I’m happy to announce that we’ve released a tool called Boilerplate, a cross-platform project generator / scaffolding tool, as open source under the MPL 2.0 license: https://github.com/gruntwork-io/boilerplate. We’ve used Boilerplate for years at Gruntwork to generate oft-repeated code, such as Terraform/OpenTofu projects, the Reference Architecture, and vending new AWS accounts and GitHub repos as part of DevOps Foundations. Boilerplate is similar to other project generator tools such as cookiecutter, yeoman, and copier, but ..read more

Every few months, we send out a newsletter to all Gruntwork customers that describes all the updates we’ve made since the last newsletter and news from the DevOps industry. Note that many of the links below go to private repos in the Gruntwork Infrastructure as Code Library and Reference Architecture that are only accessible to customers. Hello Grunts, In the last few months, we updated our Landing Zone solution with a self-service account factory that can automate the process of setting up a new multi-account structure and full SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) workflow for your dev tea ..read more

Every few months, we send out a newsletter to all Gruntwork customers that describes all the updates we’ve made since the last newsletter and news from the DevOps industry. Note that many of the links below go to private repos in the Gruntwork Infrastructure as Code Library and Reference Architecture that are only accessible to customers. Hello Grunts, In the last few months, we’ve made major strides with OpenTofu (formerly known as OpenTF), including creating the official fork, joining the Linux Foundation, creating an open source registry, and publishing the first alpha releases. At Gruntwo ..read more

Every few months, we send out a newsletter to all Gruntwork customers that describes all the updates we’ve made since the last newsletter and news from the DevOps industry. Note that many of the links below go to private repos in the Gruntwork Infrastructure as Code Library and Reference Architecture that are only accessible to customers. Hello Grunts, A lot has happened over the last several months! The biggest news is that HashiCorp decided to adopt the Business Source License (BSL), a non open source license, for all of its products, and in response, we’ve joined forces with dozens of othe ..read more

Our plan and pledge to keep Terraform open source On August 10, 2023, HashiCorp announced that after ~9 years of Terraform being open source under the MPL v2 license, they were suddenly switching it to a non open source BSL v1.1 license. We believe the BSL license is a poison pill for Terraform which threatens the entire community and ecosystem, and in this blog post, we’ll introduce OpenTF, our plan for keeping Terraform open source—forever. Why the BSL license is a poison pill for Terraform The virtuous cycle of open source Terraform was originally released under the Mozilla Publi ..read more

On Thursday, August 10, 2023, HashiCorp announced that it was switching Terraform from the MPL v2 license to a “Business Source License” (BSL). In this blog post, we’d like to address how this impacts Gruntwork customers. What exactly happened? Terraform was released in 2014 under an MPL v2 license, which allows almost any use of Terraform. The one meaningful requirement is that if you modify the Terraform source code, you need to release those modifications under the same MPL v2 license. After nearly 9 years, HashiCorp made a surprise decision to change to the BSL license for all future ..read more

How to configure GitOps-driven, immutable infrastructure workflows for Terraform using Gruntwork Patcher. A couple of months ago we announced the beta release of Gruntwork Patcher, a tool to automatically keep your infrastructure code up-to-date, even with breaking changes. I’m now happy to announce the beta release of Patcher promotion workflow. This gives you a way to automatically promote changes from environment to environment using a GitOps-driven, immutable infrastructure workflow: you can use it to roll out a new module version from dev to stage to prod, all automatically. As part ..read more