First part of a series on setting up a CI/CD pipeline for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments targeting both Azure and Azure Stack.
Guide on using an ARM template to provision Azure IoT Hub with messaging configurations and a call to contribute to open source.
A collection of practical Terraform tips and lessons learned, covering AWS security groups, VPC configuration, and common pitfalls.
A guide on exporting Azure Resource Group templates as JSON for Infrastructure as Code, covering methods via Azure Portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI.
A developer's post-mortem on a Terraform outage and a guide on why and how to use separate tfstate files per environment.
A developer shares their initial two-week experience with Terraform, detailing the highs of versioned infrastructure and the lows of debugging and module refactoring.
Learn how to securely manage VM passwords using Azure Key Vault secrets in ARM templates, eliminating plaintext password risks.
Explores using Pester, a PowerShell testing framework, for operational validation tests in Windows Server 2016 as part of Infrastructure as Code.
A tutorial for setting up Puppet in standalone mode on Fedora 23, including writing manifests and Serverspec tests.
A technical guide on automating a two-tier Public Key Infrastructure setup using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC).
Explains why Chef runs fail with authentication errors and provides a simple fix using the no_lazy_load setting.
A tutorial on using Packer.io's user variables and provisioners (file, shell) to build and configure virtual machines.
A tutorial on using Packer.io to create identical, automated machine images for development and production environments, focusing on VirtualBox builder.
A talk on Chef Sugar, a Ruby library for Chef, covering its history and technical internals.
A developer's perspective on Infrastructure as Code (IaC), its principles, and its role in modern DevOps practices.
Introducing Chef Sugar, a Ruby library that extends Chef with helpful DSL methods and logic to simplify and improve recipe writing.
Announcing Packer, an open-source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms like AWS AMIs and Vagrant boxes.
A guide to unit testing Chef cookbooks using ChefSpec, focusing on testing instructions rather than results to catch regressions.
A guide on migrating Chef cookbooks to individual repositories using Berkshelf for dependency management.
