Nicholas Whittaker • 7/17/2023

Signing Terraform provider releases with a local Buildkite agent

This technical article details a method for securely signing Terraform provider releases by configuring a local Buildkite agent to handle GPG signing. It explains the motivation to avoid exposing a primary GPG key to cloud-based CI agents, the setup process for a local agent, and the resulting pipeline changes. This is a DevOps-focused tutorial on release automation and security.

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#ci/cd #Terraform #Gpg