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Here's an interesting use case I came across -that I thought could also be a useful 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 that Azure Pipelines can be good at orchestration … Continue reading Azure DevOps and Terraform to provision AWS 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
Continuing with my learning on Terraform, I realized an exciting type of variable -map type and how to refer to it. And that was when I decided to prepare my notes on Terraform variable types, ways to declare them, assign values, and refer to them. These are my running notes, so I'll keep updating them … Continue reading Getting started with Terraform -Variables
In my previous note, I mentioned the steps to authenticate Azure. Here in this note, I'll list the steps to authenticate to AWS. The approach will be quite similar -we create an IAM user with appropriate policies, create/update terraform configuration files, and run the configuration files. Step 1: Create an IAM user To work with … Continue reading Authenticating Terraform to AWS using IAM user
Continuing on my journey to learn Terraform, I wanted to explore the idea of authenticating Terraform to Azure. Terraform, as we know, is an infrastructure automation tool, and this authentication technique allows us to create/manage resources on the Azure cloud platform. I came across two insightful articles on Azure Service Principals that helped me understand … Continue reading Authenticating Terraform to Azure using Service Principal
Provisioning and de-provisioning computing resources happen at a faster rate as the process of doing so become accessible. And cloud technologies like AWS and Azure have made it easy, cheap, and quick to do so. However, provisioning resources manually (although possible) is not scalable and also not efficient. Any organization pursuing its DevOps journey must … Continue reading Getting started with Terraform
