When using AWS API Gateway you can use the AWS Lambda authorizer for HTTP APIs to authorize the requests. In this blog I will show you how to validate a JWT token signed with KMS in a Lambda using the Golang runtime. For the examples I am using API Gateway V2 with HTTP APIs with the v2 authorizer payload format version and for the resources I am using Terraform. ...
If you want to create an infrastructure CI/CD pipeline for AWS using Terraform, you want to keep the state in a remote backend. When provisioning an environment with Terraform that includes the state backend resources, you will need two actions to set up the remote state backend. In this blog I will present you with a CloudFormation template with which you can bootstrap the AWS account. This will decouple the state backend resources from the Terraform template. This allows you to use the remote backend straight away from your CI/CD pipeline. ...
