Terraform scanning is one of the easiest “shift-left” wins: you catch risky defaults, misconfigurations, and policy violations before they become real infrastructure. The tricky part isn’t whether to scan — it’s choosing a tool that fits your workflow (local dev + CI), your policy needs, and your reporting requirements.
In the full article, we cover:
- What Terraform/IaC scanning is and what it’s best at catching
- 7 widely used scanners and how they differ in coverage and focus
- How teams typically integrate scanners into CI/CD and pull request workflows
- What to look for when evaluating a scanner (policies, suppression, speed, output formats)
➡️ Read the full article on our blog:
https://spacelift.io/blog/terraform-scanning-tools
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