• Wiping an AWS Account with aws-nuke


    When you're an SRE/DevOps engineer you'll end up making AWS accounts and create a lot of cruft in your sandbox and development accounts. AWS does not make it easy to clear these up but there is a tool called aws-nuke that will do it for you!

    Safe Guards

    aws-nuke has a few safeguards in place to prevent inadvertent data loss. The...

  • AWS From Scratch with Terraform - Setting up your Root Account for IaC with Terraform Cloud and Github actions.


    Following this article will get you setup with an AWS Root account that can be managed through through Terraform Cloud with OIDC and github actions. As a best practice you should not keep long-lived access keys in your CI/CD pipelines when deploying to AWS, instead you should use OIDC (OpenID Connect) to securely deploy to AWS when using Terraform Cloud or Github Actions.