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Anton Babenko

AWS HeroCEO of Betajob

I build and maintain open-source Terraform and AWS tooling.

Entries per year, 2015 to 2026. Years from 2027 on have no data collected yet.
  1. 2015: 1 post
  2. 2016: 2 posts
  3. 2017: 2 posts
  4. 2018: 1 release, 3 posts, 1 talk
  5. 2019: 2 posts, 3 talks
  6. 2020: 3 posts, 1 talk, 20 livestreams, 31 newsletters
  7. 2021: 1 talk, 39 livestreams, 35 newsletters
  8. 2022: 3 talks, 25 livestreams, 35 newsletters
  9. 2023: 2 talks, 27 livestreams, 52 newsletters
  10. 2024: 6 talks, 16 livestreams, 52 newsletters, 2 socials
  11. 2025: 2 posts, 13 talks, 3 livestreams, 51 newsletters, 1 social
  12. 2026: 5 releases, 10 posts, 9 talks, 1 livestream, 37 newsletters, 6 socials

2026

  1. talkThe judgment gap: when Terraform scans clean but fails the audit (COM302)

    AWS re:invent 2026, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, upcomingcompliance.tfSessionize

  2. talkAWS Community Day Adria 2026

    Ljubljana, SloveniaSessionize

  3. talkMalta AWS Community day 2026

    San Ġiljan, MaltaSessionize

  4. postDeliberation Dashboard: see and analyze your consensus results

    A local dashboard that draws every Deliberation run as it happens, an analyzer that says which model to drop and why, and each run's config.Deliberationantonbabenko.com

  5. talkCloud Native Days Austria 2026

    Vienna, AustriaSessionize

  6. talkAWS Community Day DACH 2026

    Berlin, GermanySessionize

  7. postFrom Fork to One Source Line: Operational Rules for terraform-aws-modules

    Three forks of terraform-aws-modules that exist to hold one lifecycle block, and the source line that replaces each of them. See the diff first in the Rules Playground, then register a free account and change one line.compliance.tfcompliance.tf

  8. postRules Preview, the Playground, and Six More Rules Are Live

    See the diff an Operational Rule makes on the module root before you change a source line, pick from fifteen rules, group them into a Baseline and rulesets, and read the known Terraform limits module by module.compliance.tfcompliance.tf

  9. talkAWS Community Day Poland 2026

    Warsaw, PolandSessionize

  10. talkJavaZone

    Lillestrøm, NorwaySessionize

  11. postHashiCorp's tfpolicy Made Module Source a Policy Decision

    tfpolicy evaluates policy before Terraform downloads a module. At that stage a policy can only allow or deny a source string, which makes the catalog behind the string the thing that decides the outcome.compliance.tfcompliance.tf

  12. releaserepro-lambda

    Build reproducible AWS Lambda packages outside Terraform, optimized for terraform-aws-lambda by serverless.tf.serverless.tfgithub.com

  13. postThe compliance.tf Registry Is Now Public

    The compliance.tf registry is live and open to anyone. Here is why a compliance-aware Terraform registry matters, what it gives you, and how to pull your first module in about five minutes.compliance.tfcompliance.tf

  14. postMeet Deliberation: 400+ models is easy, knowing which ones earn a place is hard.

    How a three-model consensus tool grew into a configurable, measurable panel - and why I now make every model prove it pays for its slot.Deliberationantonbabenko.com

  15. postOne model is a guess. Three that agree is a plan.

    Why I shipped multi-model consensus as a plugin, plus two quieter tools that keep agents honest.Deliberationantonbabenko.com

  16. releaseagent-plugins

    A collection of agent plugins for improving productivity, automating workflows, and making AI coding agents work better together.github.com

  17. releaseDeliberation

    Ask several AI models for second opinions or an arbiter-mediated consensus, from one MCP server.Deliberationgithub.com

  18. talkAWS Community Day Athens 2026

    Athens, GreeceSessionize

  19. releaseawesome-terraform-compliance

    Tools, frameworks and resources for implementing compliance, security and governance controls in Terraform and OpenTofu infrastructure.compliance.tfgithub.com

  20. postDebugging terraform init: 401, 403, 502, and What Your Headers Are Telling You

    A practical guide to diagnosing terraform init failures against private registries using curl, HTTP headers, and the compliance.tf registry.compliance.tfcompliance.tf

  21. postStop Paying the Terraform Fork Tax

    Introducing Operational Rules — your platform standards, enforced at terraform init. No more forking modules to add lifecycle blocks.compliance.tfcompliance.tf

  22. talkIncontro DevOps Italia (IDI) 2026

    Bologna, ItalySessionize

  23. postWhy Enterprises Choose Compliance.tf Over terraform-aws-modules

    Compare the hidden costs of building compliance yourself on terraform-aws-modules with the built-in controls and managed maintenance that compliance.tf provides.compliance.tfcompliance.tf

  24. releaseterraform-skill

    Terraform and OpenTofu skill for AI agents - testing, modules, CI/CD and production patterns.terraform-skillgithub.com

2025

  1. postVerifying Compliance.tf Modules: From Guardrails to Audit Evidence

    Learn how to validate compliance.tf modules with IaC scanners before deployment and infrastructure scanners after, what evidence auditors need, and how pre-apply and post-apply verification work together.compliance.tfcompliance.tf

  2. postMake Non-Compliant Terraform Impossible With Compliance.tf

    Replace after-the-fact Terraform scanning with modules that have built-in compliance controls, blocking non-compliant AWS infrastructure before it reaches your plan.compliance.tfcompliance.tf

  3. talkAWS Community Day Hong Kong 2025

    Hong KongSessionize

  4. talkAWS Community Day Bulgaria 2025

    Sofia, BulgariaSessionize

  5. talkAWS Community Day Georgia 2025

    Tbilisi, GeorgiaSessionize

  6. talkAWS North Community Conference

    Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomSessionize

  7. talkAWS Community Day Nordics 2025

    Göteborg, SwedenSessionize

  8. talkAWS Community Day DACH 2025

    Munich, GermanySessionize

  9. talkAWS Community Day Poland 2025

    Warsaw, PolandSessionize

  10. talkAWS Community Day Adria 2025

    Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaSessionize

  11. talkMalta AWS Community day 2025

    San Ġiljan, MaltaSessionize

  12. talkAWS Community Day Armenia 2025

    Yerevan, ArmeniaSessionize

  13. talkAWS Community Day CZ 2025

    Prague, CzechiaSessionize

  14. talkAWS Community Day (Security Edition) Bay Area

    Mountain View, California, United StatesSessionize

  15. talkAWS Community Day Italy 2025

    Milan, ItalySessionize

2024

  1. talkNIC Empower 2024

    Oslo, NorwaySessionize

  2. talkAWS Community Day DACH 2024

    Munich, GermanySessionize

  3. talkAWS Community Day - Central Asia

    Tashkent, UzbekistanSessionize

  4. talkAWS Community Day Poland 2024

    Warsaw, PolandSessionize

  5. talkHashiTalks 2024

    Sessionize

2023

  1. talkAWS Community Day Bulgaria 2023

    Sofia, BulgariaSessionize

  2. talkDeveloperWeek CloudX 2023

    San Mateo, California, United StatesSessionize

2022

  1. talkDevOpsDays Tel Aviv 2022

    Tel Aviv, IsraelSessionize

  2. talk2022 All Day DevOps

    Sessionize

  3. talkNIC X Edition

    Oslo, NorwaySessionize

2021

  1. livestreamCrossplane vs Terraform

    YouTube

  2. talkDevOpsDays Zurich 2020

    Winterthur, SwitzerlandSessionize

2020

  1. talk2020 All Day DevOps

    Sessionize

  2. livestreamTerragrunt (part 2)

    YouTube

  3. livestreamTerragrunt (part 1)

    YouTube

  4. postYour Weekly Dose of Terraform — Live Streams

    I do live streams talking about things I enjoy working with - IaC, DevOps, Terraform, and AWS.antonbabenko.com

  5. postAnonymized, Secure, and Free Terraform Cost Estimation

    There are some things you should know about infrastructure costs: How much does my infrastructure is going to cost before create?antonbabenko.com

  6. post"Terraform AWS modules" as a code

    After several years of maintaining Terraform AWS modules on GitHub and making constant improvements in processes I decided to spend more time and improveterraform-aws-modulesantonbabenko.com

2019

  1. talk2019 All Day DevOps

    Sessionize

  2. talkdevopsdays Amsterdam 2019

    Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSessionize

  3. talkNDC Oslo 2019

    Oslo, NorwaySessionize

  4. postMy Terraform AWS journey — HashiTimes Interview

    I'd like to share an extended interview which I gave to HashiTimes (newsletter curated by the community and not affiliated with HashiCorp) in June 2019.antonbabenko.com

  5. postTerraform documentation as PDF files

    I like to search in it and access it offline (during a flight, for example). I've made a repository where documentation for Terraform core and all officialantonbabenko.com

2018

  1. postAWS Console — Browse public S3 bucket (without asking for listing permission)

    If you want to browse public S3 bucket to list the content of it and download files.antonbabenko.com

  2. releasemodules.tf — Convert visual AWS diagram into Terraform configuration

    I am excited to announce the public-release of modules.tf, which allows a conversion from visual AWS diagrams using cloudcraft.co to infrastructure codemodules.tfantonbabenko.com

  3. talkNDC Oslo 2018

    Sessionize

  4. postAtlantis + Terragrunt = ?

    TLDR; Does Atlantis work with Terragrunt? The short answer - pretty much, yes (updated 18.9.2018).antonbabenko.com

  5. postMake Terraform faster — skip unnecessary checks (AWS and S3)

    Working with Terraform on a daily basis I feel it can be a good idea to share some small tips I have. Let me start with this one.antonbabenko.com

2017

  1. postTerrapin: making good Terraform modules

    You are reading the second blog post in the series about using Terraform continuously. In the previous one I outlined common traits in Terraform modules.terraform-aws-modulesantonbabenko.com

  2. postUsing Terraform continuously — Common traits in modules

    This is the first blog post in the series about using Terraform continuously, which I am going to publish over the next few weeks.terraform-aws-modulesantonbabenko.com

2016

  1. postRunning "terraform fmt" as pre-commit git hook [archived]

    This is my second blog post related to Terraform. Previous one was about how I structure Terraform configuration, which got some interesting feedback onpre-commit-terraformantonbabenko.com

  2. postHow I structure Terraform configurations? [archived]

    Note that this blog post was originally written in September 2016, and many things has been changed since then.Terraform Best Practicesantonbabenko.com

2015

  1. postLessons learned from AWS and Varnish [archived]

    In this post I want to share a few thoughts I figured out during my latest assignment where I used to design and then implement architecture for e-commerceantonbabenko.com