Avoiding AWS secrets in Terraform statefiles

I’ve been using Terraform for managing my AWS account for a while. It’s pretty snazzy, but there are still a couple of things that Terraform doesn’t fully handle. For example, making an IAM access key in Terraform stores the secret key in the statefile. They’ve added support to store the secret key encrypted with a GPG key, but I’d much prefer to not have it end up in the statefile at all. ...

2018-03-30 · Les Aker