How to integrate Terraform IaC (Infrastructure as Code) into Jenkins? Cloud infrastructure offers great agility and flexibility but you need the right toolsets to manage the power of public cloud platforms. To operate in the public cloud efficiently, You need to treat infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC eliminates the manual interaction required to configure Cloud […]
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Terraform – Source credentials from AWS secret Manager
How to avoid plain text credentials in terraform code? Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code tool that supports multi-cloud platforms. Many organizations have taken the multi-cloud strategy to manage the cost and eliminate the single vendor dependency. If you have multiple cloud environments, terraform becomes the default choice for provisioning. Communicating to multi-cloud […]
What is Infrastructure as Code ? IaC
Define all your IT infrastructure as Code instead of creating it manually. So that Infrastructure resources can be easily re-created or replicated. Managing IT infrastructure might be a hard job in the past but not now. In the past, system administrators have to manually manage and configure all of the hardware and software that was […]
Bootstrap Terraform – Let’s create an Azure resource group
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files. Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house […]
Open Source – Hybrid Cloud Automation Platform
Ansible and Terraform are market-leading automation tools. These tools are not competing with each other. But great things can be achieved when you combine them together. Terraform is the best multi-cloud provisioning tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure efficiently. Ansible on another hand where plays a significant role in configuration management. If the organization […]
Azure Cloud Shell – Create a Linux VM using Terraform?
How fast you can spin up a VM in Azure Cloud? Have you experienced an azure cloud shell and terraform builder tool? Let’s quickly spin up a Linux VM using terraform code from Azure Cloud Shell. There are 100 ways to build the VM but this article just shows the robustness of the terraform and […]
How to use Terraform from Azure Cloud Shell?
How to use terraform from Azure cloud shell? Do we need to install an additional package to use terraform? Nope. Azure provides commonly used CLI tools including Linux shell interpreters, PowerShell modules, Azure tools, text editors, source control, build tools (ex: terraform), and more in cloud shell. This makes azure builders to quickly deploy Azure […]
VMware vSphere – Build VM using Terraform – Cent OS/RHEL (Redhat Linux)
This article will provide step by step procedure for building “CentOS” /”Redhat Linux” Virtual Machine using Terraform tool on the VMware vSphere environment. Terraform is an excellent tool to build VM’s on VMware vSphere environment. Terraform doesn’t require any dedicated host. You could download an opensource/free version of Terraform on your laptop or desktop and […]