Integration testing of Terraform modules

In one of the previous chapters on making various tools play well with Terraform, we already took a quick look at running infrastructure tests. Back then we used Inspec to run a test against the single EC2 instance. A few chapters forward, and now we have much more complex Terraform setup on our hands; one that is split across four repositories.

If we were to consider ourselves old-fashioned traditional system administrators, we would be quite happy with what we have achieved by now. But a good software developer (and if we are doing infrastructure as code, then we are already software developers, regardless of our previous experience) would never leave any code without proper tests. And what we wrote ...

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