Using tfsec to analyze the compliance of Terraform configuration

In the previous recipe, we learned how to use a custom tool to perform an HCL check on the Terraform configuration without running terraform plan and exporting the output of the plan command.

In this recipe, we will learn how to use the popular tool tfsec to analyze the compliance of the Terraform configuration.

tfsec (its documentation is available here: https://aquasecurity.github.io/tfsec/v1.28.1/) is an open source static analysis tool for Terraform code. It is designed to detect security issues, policy violations, and other potential problems in Terraform code, and provides a set of rules that can be used to scan code for these issues.

tfsec works by analyzing the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of Terraform code. This allows it to identify security issues and policy violations based on the structure of the code, without executing the code or connecting to any external services.

Some of the benefits of...