From OpenTofu to Argo CD: GitLab as your AWS control plane

Published

2026-08-18 00:00

Collected

2026-08-18 16:37

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title: "From OpenTofu to Argo CD: GitLab as your AWS control plane"
source_domain: about.gitlab.com
source_url: "https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-as-your-aws-control-plane/"
published_at: "2026-08-18T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["cloud", "aws", "gitlab", "ci-cd", "eks", "argocd", "opentofu", "gitops"]
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# From OpenTofu to Argo CD: GitLab as your AWS control plane

## Summary

Tutorial: making GitLab your AWS control plane—OpenTofu provisions EKS through CI/CD pipelines, GitLab builds and packages the app, and Argo CD deploys it via GitOps, with everything defined as code.

## Why it matters

This coverage gives security teams current context for monitoring, validation, and remediation.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** about.gitlab.com
- **Published:** 2026-08-18T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-as-your-aws-control-plane/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/6587