Terraform is the go tool to provision your infrastructure and all the VM you need to run your applications. The issue is that once the VM is provisioned and running you still may want to configure that instance to make it production-ready. A popular solution for infrastructure configuration is Ansible. …

Terraform allows you to set up servers in the cloud without much hassle. To access those servers with your CI/CD tools, however, requires additional settings such as configuring SSH key pairs. This tutorial will teach you how to generate SSH key pairs using Terraform and how to use the generated…

Did you know that GitHub Actions supports the definition of environments? Environments are a great option to manage and track provisioning and deployment workflow in GitHub Action. You can create any number of environments for a given repository. It could be dev, staging, and production for instance. But you are…

Terraform Cloud is the managed solution offered by Hashicorp to run Terraform configurations 💡. It is in some manner a “CI/CD tool” to manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC). It eliminates the need for you to configure a dedicated task in your CI/CD (Jenkins, Bamboo, Circle CI, etc.) and also provided…

A Disposable Local Test Environment for DevOps / SysAdmin — Experimenting with Docker Swarm and having only a single node is a bit sad 😞. Luckily in my previous tutorial, you learn how to create A Disposable Local Test Environment using Vagrant and Ansible. …

Design and Test Ansible playbook with Vagrant — Working on your infrastructure setups and testing your automation script can be tedious if you don’t have a proper test environment that enables a fast iteration loop. The best when automating your server provisioning with Ansible scripts is to be able to set up servers a local server step by…

One Step further In the world of Open-Source Ergo Split Keyboards — Over the past month, I have continued my journey on creating my own custom-made split mechanical keyboard. I don’t have a keyboard quite yet, but I have had several packages coming in with electronic components over the past weeks. Theoretically, you would need to learn many things before creating your…

There are many things you can do first in terms of disaster recovery. The latest AWS outage sadly enough encouraged me to keep digging deeper into the subject of disaster recovery. …