Today, we're excited to introduce Overmind's integration with HashiCorp HCP Terraform & Terraform Enterprise . This integration allows users to automate risk detection and dependency mapping directly within their Terraform pipelines. Whether you’re dealing with secrets, misconfigurations, or unknown dependencies, Overmind integrates as a post-plan or pre-apply run taskenriches your plan with a blast radius and risk assessment, ensuring full coverage on your next infrastructure change.
Terraform Enterprise's Run Tasks
Run tasks in Terraform Enterprise interact with specific points in runs—such as post-plan and pre-apply—to ensure your infrastructure meets the necessary compliance and operational standards. Each run task can be configured with an advisory or mandatory enforcement level. If a task fails and the enforcement is set to mandatory, Terraform will halt the deployment to prevent potential issues.
Overmind's Integration with Terraform Enterprise
Overmind is a powerful tool for real-time impact analysis on Terraform changes. Terraform tells you what it’s going to change, but not whether this change will break everything. Teams need to understand dependencies to properly understand impact. With Overmind, you can identify the blast radius and uncover potential risks before they harm your infrastructure, allowing anyone to make changes with confidence.
This integration introduces a post-plan and pre-apply run task that evaluates risks and dependencies in your Terraform configuration. The benefits are substantial:
- Early Risk Detection: Overmind identifies potential issues like dependency conflicts and hidden risks before they impact your system.
- Improved Efficiency: Integrate Overmind’s checks into your existing workflow, making risk detection an automated part of your deployment process.
Imagine you're updating a critical task definition within your infrastructure. Such changes can potentially lead to service disruptions if not managed correctly. Overmind’s post-plan task would detect the following potential risks and flag them:
As Overmind uses the output of the Terraform Plan, the blast radius of affected items and the latest in LLM technology, it means that it can detect those needle in the haystack issues that could cause a outage. From small typos to larger, more complex problem; here's a small example of changes it can detect:
- Security Group Rule Changes
- Ingress Rule Misconfigurations
- IAM Policy Adjustment
- Database Configuration Changes
- Port Misconfigurations in Load Balancers
This new integration between Overmind and HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise empowers teams to embed advanced risk detection into their Infrastructure as Code development pipelines. By integrating these essential checks early in the development process, teams can quickly remediate issues, ensuring secure and efficient deployments and help avoid that next production outage.
The Overmind integration is available now on all plans.
Visit the Overmind docs for detailed instructions, and don’t hesitate to reach out to us for assistance via our contact page.
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