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My objective was to use Terraform to provision resources across environments in the AWS cloud infrastructure. Following a typical CI/CD model, my idea was to build once and deploy multiple. Since there was nothing to build in terraform, I wanted to apply the same terraform code across all environments. So I thought, let's run terraform … Continue reading Terraform workspace with multiple AWS accounts
After writing a few notes on "Azure DevOps and Terraform," I thought of exploring the idea of integrating Azure DevOps and Terraform a little further. Generally speaking, in Azure Pipelines (classic editor), a build definition (pipeline in Azure DevOps services) is used to compile and package an artifact. Then, under Releases, we have a release … Continue reading CI/CD using Terraform and Azure Pipelines -ideation
Generally speaking, when we work with Terraform to provision resources in AWS Cloud, we have a few pre-requisites. These are -a remote backend to store the Terraform state file, a lock table, and IAM user credentials that Terraform will require to provision the resources. I say "generally speaking" because you can get away with the … Continue reading Create Terraform pre-requisites for AWS using AWS CLI in 3 easy steps
Any Terraform project configuring resources in Azure has pre-requisites. These are (i) a storage account, a container in the storage account, and the access key to the storage account, and (ii) a service principal credential to be able to communicate with Azure to create-update-delete resources. In this post, I describe the process to set up … Continue reading Create Terraform pre-requisites for Azure using Azure CLI in 3 easy steps
This note is in continuation to the previous one -Terraform Remote State -Part1: Using AWS, where I've covered the what and how of a terraform remote state. So that we are all on the same page, I'll list down a few important points related to that: -the current state of infrastructure as referred to by … Continue reading Terraform Remote State -Part 2: Using Azure
When I started learning Terraform, I installed the tool, wrote Terraform configuration files, and ran the commands from my local (laptop). I did not put a lot of thought into understanding a remote state and how it is useful. As I continued learning, and as I started using Azure DevOps to automate infrastructure provisioning using … Continue reading Terraform Remote State -Part 1: Using AWS
As of this writing [Feb 2021], if you've used the Terraform extension from Microsoft DevLabs, you'd have noticed that there is support for only a tiny set of Terraform commands out of the box. These are init, validate, plan, validate and apply, and destroy. But Terraform has many commands: fmt, import, output, show, taint, workspace, … Continue reading Exploring Azure Pipelines, Terraform, and Powershell
In my previous note, [Azure DevOps and Terraform to provision Amazon S3], I listed in detail the steps to be followed to provision an Amazon S3 bucket using Azure DevOps and Terraform. I referred to the classic editor in the build definition/azure pipelines. Build and release definitions declared via a classic editor in Azure DevOps, … Continue reading Azure Pipelines (YAML) and Terraform to provision Amazon S3
Here's an interesting use case I came across -that I thought could also be a valuable resource to share- and hence this post. I've worked on Terraform and am aware of the solution that it provides to IaC principles. I've worked extensively on Azure DevOps and know Azure Pipelines can also be good at orchestration. … Continue reading Azure DevOps and Terraform to provision Amazon S3
I do not have a lot of experience taking professional certification tests, so I cannot compare whether this test is easy or hard. However, if your concepts on IaC are clear and you have hands-on experience on Terraform (over three months in my case) in provisioning and managing resources, this certification is a good status … Continue reading How I prepared for and passed Terraform associate certification
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