Checking the configuration before committing code using Git hooks

Git hooks are scripts that run automatically before or after certain Git events, such as committing code. These scripts can be used to automate tasks and ensure code quality.

In different chapters of this book, we have learned some commands and tools in Terraform that allow us to do Terraform code analysis.

Here are some of the Terraform commands and tools we have learned about:

• terraform fmt to format the configuration with the right code indentation
• terraform validate to validate the Terraform configuration syntax
• Tflint, a linter for Terraform configuration
• Tfsec to check some security compliance

The goal of this recipe is to show how to use Git hooks to integrate these commands and the execution of these tools before committing the configuration to a Git repository.

Let’s get started!

Getting ready

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