DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the development lifecycle while delivering high-quality software continuously. If you’re a beginner looking to start a career in DevOps, this roadmap will guide you through the essential skills, tools, and practices to become a proficient DevOps […]
Terraform
Jenkins Integration – Terraform IaC Pipeline Setup
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Packer Automation – Build Redhat/CentOS VM on VMware vSphere
In this article, we will be walking through the building of Redhat Enterprise Linux 7/CentOS 7 VM using ISO on VMware vSphere environment. Packer is very useful to build your base images on the cloud and on-premise. Packer is an opensource tool and developed by HashiCorp. HashiCorp owns very famous tools like Vagrant, Consul, and […]