Infrastructure as Code 🤖

All my posts about Infrastructure as Code

20 posts

Infrastructure-as-Code posts - choosing a tool, structuring modules, dealing with state, integrating with CI, and the team patterns that decide whether an IaC effort sticks. Covers Terraform, Bicep, ARM, Pulumi, and Ansible flavours of the same problem.

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10 May 2020

Azure DevOps Ansible Pipeline

Streamline your DevOps workflows by setting up an Azure pipeline using Ansible playbooks. Learn how to integrate Azure CLI for faster results!

3 Apr 2020

Ansible and the Azure Rest API

Learn how Ansible utilizes Azure REST API for efficient resource management, with insights on azure_rm_resource module and Visual Studio Code extension.

8 Feb 2019

Terraform Quirks

Explore Terraform quirks: module challenges, resource dependencies, and count/list workarounds.

11 Sept 2016

Amazon Web Services with Ansible

Explore how Russ Mckendrick utilizes Ansible to manage Amazon Web Services infrastructure, from VPC creation to EC2 instance deployment and AMI management.

19 Jul 2015

Terraform & Azure

Unlock the power of Terraform and Azure for seamless VM provisioning! Learn how to streamline your infrastructure management today!

2 Feb 2015

Production Ready Images with Packer

Automate AWS instance setup with Packer. Ensure rapid scalability with pre-configured images. Explore Packer's versatility across platforms.

14 Dec 2014

First Steps with Ansible

Explore Ansible for AWS automation, transitioning from manual scripting. Initiate playbook for VPC and ELB deployment.

23 Feb 2014

More Puppet

Efficient Puppet setup on CentOS with quick deployment scripts for Puppet Master and Agents, including a GitHub repo for easy configuration management.

12 Jan 2014

Vagrant & Puppet

A deep dive into using Vagrant and Puppet for setting up reproducible development environments, mirroring production with local Virtualbox instances.