CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

In modern cloud-native environments, GitOps practitioners face a significant challenge: managing dynamically generated resource values across Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Kubernetes manifests. This disconnect often leads to manual interventions, hard-coded values, and cumbersome update processes that compromise the efficiency and security of GitOps workflows. This talk introduces the Terraform Bridge, an innovative solution to seamlessly integrate dynamically generated cloud resource attributes with Kubernetes resources. We present a novel controller that leverages Terraform's output feature to automatically update Kubernetes objects such as ConfigMaps and Deployments. This approach eliminates the need for manual updates and hard-coding of sensitive or randomly generated values, thereby enhancing both security and automation in GitOps pipelines.