🚀 Secure AWS provisioning with Terraform

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&#129309; From the community
${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> — Practice resolving Terraform state issues across eight puzzles covering resource renames, imports, stale locks, drift, and count index shifts using moved, import, and removed blocks plus state commands. by ${articleauthor}
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${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> — Review Google Cloud provider 8.0 changes, including load-balancing defaults, retired resources, and list-to-set conversions, and prepare migrations by resolving deprecations on the latest 7.x release.  by ${articleauthor}
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${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> —See how to deploy an AWS game server fleet with Terraform, using infrastructure code reviews to catch security group errors and reusable modules to replicate deployments across regions. by ${articleauthor}
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${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> — Explore how Pinterest’s Resource Provisioner Pipeline enforces least-privilege access and dual-control reviews across Terraform workspaces managing AWS resources through GitHub Actions workflows.  by ${articleauthor}
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${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> — Learn how to provision an Amazon DocumentDB cluster with Terraform using encryption, authentication, network isolation, and monitoring controls. by ${articleauthor}
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${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> — See how to address Terraform challenges like drift, state conflicts, risky plans, and stack dependencies by embedding policy, automation, and guardrails directly into your infrastructure workflow. by ${articleauthor}
HashiConf at IBM TechXchange 2026
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With HashiConf at IBM TechXchange just around the corner, it’s time to start putting together your agenda!   Here’s some of the sessions we’re looking forward 
to the most:  


	- Search and rescue: Bring your infrastructure under Terraform management 
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	- Practice discovering existing resources, importing them in bulk, and generating configuration with Terraform Community Edition and HCP Terraform.


	- Stop the handoff hell: Full lifecycle automation with Terraform and Ansible 
[TEC-2585]
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	- Learn how Terraform Actions trigger Ansible playbooks to automate provisioning, configuration, and day 2 operations.


	- Intent-based infrastructure provisioning with watsonx Orchestrate, Vault, and Terraform [LAB-4206]
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	- Provision secure infrastructure from natural language requests using watsonx Orchestrate, Terraform, and Vault while maintaining policy enforcement and audit continuity.
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	- Securing clinical AI: watsonx Orchestrate on OpenShift with Vault and Vault Radar [TEC-1138]
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	- Explore a clinical AI deployment that uses Vault for runtime credentials, Vault Radar for secrets detection, and Terraform for infrastructure automation.
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	- Lock it down: Establishing distributed machine identity with SPIFFE in Vault [LAB-4052]
 <https://view.hashicorp.com/ODQ1LVpMRi0xOTEAAAGk-NY8kmf2N99_DzLVbuF4tZJnfB9C1R8N-3AquOngGg_NDc5-St_kNGY2jVpgsO1wdMPjiPWpt70fRac=>


	- Practice issuing and validating SPIFFE credentials in Vault and mapping workload identities to access policies.
&#10024; From HashiCorp
${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> — A practical guide to turning AWS agentic AI architectural guidance into enforceable HCP Terraform code with security, cost controls, and production-grade guardrails. by ${articleauthor}
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${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> — Terraform 1.16 adds destroy-time Actions and reusable imports in child modules, keeping more infrastructure lifecycle operations in Terraform. by ${articleauthor}
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${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> —The Terraform provider for Google Cloud 8.0 builds on expanded infrastructure discovery workflows, modernizes 
provider defaults, removes support for retired Google Cloud services, and improves consistency between Terraform configurations and Google Cloud APIs. by ${articleauthor}
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${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> — Enable AI agents to securely access your resources while operating within enterprise identity, access, and audit controls. by ${articleauthor}
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${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> — Teams can now browse HashiCorp-managed pre-written policies, add them to a policy set, and apply common compliance guardrails directly in HCP Terraform. by ${articleauthor}
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${articletitle} <[[${articlelink}]]> — Learn how intent-driven workflows introduce a new interaction model for IBM Terraform for Z and LinuxONE, helping organizations modernize infrastructure operations through guided, repeatable agentic workflows. by ${articleauthor}
&#127822; Attend a webinar or workshop
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${eventdate} — Learn to build and manage cloud environments as code with Terraform and HCP through a live AWS and Kubernetes demo.
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${eventdate} — Join this technical session to learn how platform, cloud, and infrastructure teams are using policy-driven automation to standardize provisioning, enforce governance, and scale operations across hybrid environments.
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webinars that focus on education and best practices when using HashiCorp products across infrastructure provisioning, security, networking, and application delivery.
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