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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Static Analysis for Infrastructure with Guy Eisenkot
Description: Infrastructure-as-code tools are used to define the architecture of software systems. Common infrastructure-as-code tools include Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. When infrastructure is defined as code, we can use static analysis tools to analyze that code for configuration mistakes, just as we could analyze a programming language with traditional static analysis tools.When a developer writes a program, that developer might use static analysis to parse a program for common mistakes–memory leaks, potential null pointers, and security holes. The concept of static analysis can be extended to infrastructure as code, allowing for the discovery of higher level pro...