Infrastructure as code is the backbone of any cloud-based DevOps system or architecture. In the past, it was not uncommon for testing to be downplayed as unnecessary. Engineers may look at their work and feel there is no real need to test and push to production. However, in the long run, this is a mistake….
In provisioning infrastructure for any environment, there is a need for users to securely access dynamic hosts and services – this is where the hashicorp boundary takes a great task up. Hashicorp is an open-source solution and has had several things that have made it evolve in the past years and boundary has to be…
Once your startup grows, it’s no longer a startup but a scale-up, and when that happens, a new set of challenges arises. This is a list of (some) common challenges scale-ups face when growing into a more mature business; the challenge now is not knowing what to do – but being consistently good at it….
Introduction In this article we are going to talk about two open-source infrastructure-as-code tools that we use at Flugel. These tools are Packer, to build machine images for different platforms, and Terraform, to manage infrastructure resources. By using the two in combination it’s possible to create infrastructure-as-code solutions that automatically build and run custom…
Terraform is a great orchestration tool and SaltStack is great configuration management software. The first one allows you to create resources in the cloud (instances, load balancer, databases, etc) and the second is used to provision the instances. Salt works in a master-agent mode, the agents are called minions. To provision an instance you have…
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