January 2022 Summaries

Infracost has announced a new integration with Open Policy Agent (OPA), HashiCorp Sentinel, and Conftest, allowing DevOps teams to establish cost policies before deploying resources. This integration provides guardrails for infrastructure costs by enabling policies such as requiring team lead approval if Terraform changes increase costs by more than 15%, instance costs rise over $2/hour, or if IOPS costs exceed those of the instances. This feature enhances developer workflows by enabling self-service infrastructure within budgetary constraints and addresses the challenge of making informed service choices without cost visibility. Many companies have relied on retrospective alerts and reports for cost management, but Infracost offers a proactive solution within the Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) process, catching costly components during code reviews. The integration is quickly implementable and available in partner products like Env0, SpaceLift, and Scalr.

Infracost v0.9.16 introduces several new features, including the ability to share cost estimates through automatically generated sharable links, enhancing collaboration with colleagues, managers, and clients. The release includes a new composable GitLab CI template, which allows users to customize commenting behaviors in CI/CD pipelines, and introduces 10 new resources for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The update also offers a streamlined Docker image for easier integration with Terraform and Terragrunt, and improvements such as faster processing with config-file usage. The community has been actively involved, with integrations and contributions from partners like Scalr and individuals such as Josh Niec and Kanishk Agrawal. Looking forward, the team plans to focus on Azure DevOps integration and further enhancements based on user feedback.