automation

Terraform by itself automates a lot of things: it creates, changes, and versions your cloud resources. Although many teams run Terraform locally (sometimes with wrapper scripts), running Terraform in CI/CD can boost the organization’s performance and ensure consistent deployments. In this article, I would like to review different approaches to integrating Terraform into generic deployment pipelines. Where to store the Terraform code Storing Terraform code in the same repository as the application code or maintaining a separate repository for the infrastructure?...

Updated on the 23rd of October, 2021: Terraform AWS provider now supports Dedicated Hosts natively In November 2021, AWS announced the support for Mac mini instances. I believe this is huge, even despite the number of constraints this solution has. This offering opens the door to seamless macOS CI/CD integration into existing AWS infrastructure. So here is a quick-start example of creating the dedicated host and the instance altogether using Terraform....

Here is some CLI shortcuts I use day-to-day to simplify and speed-up my Terraform workflow. Requirements — bash-compatible interpreter, because aliases and functions described below will work with bash, zsh and ohmyzsh. In order to use any of described aliases of functions, you need to place it in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file (or any other configuration file you have for your shell). Then just source this file, for example: source ~/....

Although Github Actions service is generally available since November 13, 2020, and there are about 243,000,000 results for “github actions” in Google search already, I have just reached it… It’s half past midnight, it took me about 35 commits to make my first github automation work, but it finally works and this blog post was built and published automatically! Actions everywhere One of the most (or maybe the most one) powerful things in Actions is … Actions!...