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Secure Terraform Actions for Private Infrastructures

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Proper organizing data and calls transfer within the IaaC processes is one of the crucial elements of establishing the sufficient level of security within the enterprise. Traditionally, when Maestro users work with Terraform, all templates are stored and processed on Maestro side. However, this approach does not suit when the customer needs the sensitive data be kept within their private secure perimeter. Recently, we introduced a new secure approach to process Terraform templates with the Private Agent. The general idea of the approach is the following. Once you use a native cloud provider for Terraform templates execution, you (before the update was introduced) would pull the git repository and execute Terraform on Maestro side, which may not have direct access to your private cloud and execution would fail. However, now you have an option to choose execution on Maestro Private Agent, which has its own Terraform engine that is used to process the templates, staying within your secure