A guide to evaluating and choosing deployment tools for serverless applications, covering infrastructure-as-code, declarative vs. procedural approaches, and key criteria.
A guide to Git basics for IT operators new to source control, covering key concepts and commands to get started easily.
10 code snippets for building serverless apps with Azure Functions using Pulumi's infrastructure-as-code.
A technical guide on setting up an AWS EKS Kubernetes cluster using Terraform, covering IAM, security groups, and cluster configuration.
A tutorial on using Pulumi to deploy a static website on Azure, covering storage, CDN, and TLS setup.
A tutorial on deploying serverless Azure Functions using Pulumi's callback syntax, simplifying infrastructure and code deployment.
A guide to using Pulumi's infrastructure-as-code to deploy and manage Azure PaaS applications like App Service and SQL Database.
A guide to Azure Resource Manager templates, covering basics to advanced topics like nested templates, based on a 2019 Global Azure Bootcamp workshop.
Learn how to use AWS CloudFormation Custom Resources to extend infrastructure-as-code capabilities for unsupported AWS or third-party services.
A guide to AWS CloudFormation Macros, explaining how to create custom template transformations using Lambda functions for more flexible infrastructure-as-code.
Argues for using TypeScript over YAML for cloud infrastructure automation, using a serverless URL shortener on AWS as a case study.
A technical guide to automating the deployment of the full HashiCorp stack (Consul, Vault, Nomad, Traefik) using Vagrant and Ansible for infrastructure.
Using Terraform and a custom tool to manage GitHub issue labels as code for consistency and automation across repositories.
Explains the implicit lifecycle hook created by AWS CodeDeploy when linking to an Auto Scaling Group via IaC, and its potential issues.
A hands-on workshop from AWS re:Invent 2018 on using PowerShell to automate AWS infrastructure, featuring practical challenges.
A wrap-up of a blog series documenting all built-in Terraform interpolation functions, including project reflections and lessons learned.
Explains the Terraform values() function, which extracts values from a map, with examples and use cases.
Explains the uuid() function in Terraform, covering its usage, purpose, and technical details of RFC 4122 v4 UUID generation.
Explains the Terraform urlencode() function, its purpose for URL sanitization, and provides usage examples.
A technical guide explaining the upper() interpolation function in Terraform, including its syntax, usage examples, and practical applications.
