This blog post showcases some books to advance your career to the next level. We will look into books relevant to DevOps, Site Reliability, and Cloud Engineers & Architects around technical, business, personal growth, and other topics. …

In this blog post, we’ll explore the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF) and how it allows developers to use familiar languages to define their Terraform infrastructure, making it easier to manage and maintain. If you are new to Terraform, check out the numerous Terraform articles and guides hosted on…

This blog post will dive deep into Ansible Vault as a mechanism for keeping your sensitive values and secrets secure in your playbooks and other Ansible files. We will explore different options for working with encrypted content and password management options. If you are new to Ansible or interested in…

This blog post gathers some of the finest sessions from AWS ReInvent, a global conference hosted by AWS, to promote learning and best practices in the cloud computing community. Now that it’s been a few days since the event and all the sessions have been made available online, I curated…

In this blog post, we will dive deep into different concepts around building an Ansible inventory, along with best practices. We will look into basic functionality, managing variables, and combining multiple inventory sources and options for working with dynamic inventories. If you are new to Ansible or interested in other…

In this blog post, we will explore managing infrastructure with Terraform and GitHub actions. Terraform has become the standard nowadays in managing Infrastructure as Code, while GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform integrated into GitHub. Let’s see how we can combine them to orchestrate our infrastructure…

Ansible is one of the most used open-source software tools for configuration management, software provisioning, and application deployment of cloud or on-premises environments. This article will look into best practices for setting up Ansible projects and suggest approaches to deal with Ansible’s internals effectively. If you are new to Ansible…

This blog post will look into two Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation tools, Atlantis and Terraform Cloud/Enterprise and analyze their similarities and differences. Atlantis allows users to orchestrate Terraform automation through pull requests by using comments, and it’s a great tool suited for small-scale projects and casual usage. Terraform Cloud…

Terraform provides a well-defined and concise way to deploy infrastructure resources and changes. The typical workflow involves manual steps and checks that aren’t easily scalable and depend on human intervention to complete successfully. This article will look into different approaches to automating infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and the pros and…