Policy as Code and Compliance Checks
Add a guardrail layer to your testing strategy by scanning Terraform plans for security and compliance violations before they reach production.
Testing Is Not Just Functional
Unit and integration tests prove your infrastructure works. Policy as code proves it is allowed: no public S3 buckets, only approved instance types, required tags present. These checks run automatically against every change.
Where Policy Checks Fit
Policy checks slot between plan and apply. The plan output is analyzed, and a violation blocks the apply, just like a failing test blocks a merge.
All lessons in this course
- Terraform `validate` and `fmt`
- Unit Testing with Terratest
- Integration Testing Cloud Resources
- Policy as Code and Compliance Checks