terraform-module

Terraform module design best practices are enforced by validating a predictable file layout, requiring documented variables and outputs, and checking provider and version constraints across environments to ensure production readiness.

Secure remote state in Terraform is achieved by enforcing encrypted state storage with DynamoDB locking, applying least-privilege IAM controls, and ensuring no hardcoded secrets exist within the module.

Reviewing a Terraform module for production readiness involves checking required variable descriptions, sensitive typing, safe naming conventions, mandatory tagging, and correct version constraints to guarantee safe infrastructure composition.

Packaging reusable Terraform modules across services works by enforcing a predictable structure with main, variables, outputs, versions, and optional locals-data files alongside a README for consistent infrastructure reuse.

Terraform modules fail governance checks when they lack mandatory tags, miss encrypted remote state with locking, or contain hardcoded secrets instead of least-privilege IAM configurations and sensitive variable declarations.