What is GitOps? Why it’s so popular? GitOps is nothing but doing “Infrastructure as Code” right. “Infrastructure as code” is creating infrastructure using code rather than creating it manually. As I mentioned in the previous article, IaC has been evolved over the period, as “Network as code”, “Security as Code”, “Policy as Code” etc. So […]
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 […]
AVS Cloud – VMware vSphere on Microsoft Azure
Azure VMware Solution offers VMware vSphere environment on Cloud. This private cloud will be built from dedicated bare-metal hardware on Azure. The minimum initial deployment is three hosts in AVS. Additional hosts can be added one at a time. This AVS vSphere cluster supports up to 16 hosts per cluster. VMware vSphere private cloud have […]
Backup Solution – Azure VMware Solution virtual machines
Azure VMware Solution aka AVS is a private cloud solution on public cloud platforms. Azure VMware Solution provides enterprises with private clouds that contain vSphere clusters, built from dedicated bare-metal Azure infrastructure. AVS brings VMware workloads on Azure public cloud and helps customer to do “lift and shift” from ON-PREM VMware environments to AVS. Backup […]
Terraform – x509 certificate error | Terraform in an offline mode
Terraform is a great infrastructure provisioning tool that works well for multi-cloud and On-PREM environments. This software tool provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. I see that many of the beginners trying to learn “terraform” on the VM’s. But they face challenge regards to trusted TLS certificate while trying to download […]
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 tag automation using an Initiative definition
Azure tag automation using an Initiative definition. In Cloud, Tags are metadata values that contain keys and values to help users organize and bring governance to cloud resources. Tagging is essential because it helps to efficiently optimize costs across cloud providers by assigning useful information to any resource within your cloud infrastructure. It also helps […]
Azure – How to enable hybrid benefit for windows servers?
Azure – How to enable hybrid benefit for windows servers? Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server allows you to use the on-premises Windows Server licenses (BYOL – Bring your license Model). Microsoft will reduce the instance prize based on your licensing choice. The default “licensing” type is PAYG (Pay as you go) for both Windows […]
Ansible – Validate Multiple conditions for a task
How to add multiple conditions for an ansible task? Here are some of the examples which will help you to pick the right one according to your need. Ansible is an open-source market-leading configuration management tool. It’s a complete automation tool that can be used from On-premise to cloud platforms. In some cases, ansible is […]