Terraform is a strong open-source declarative and platform agnostic infrastructure as code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp. It facilitates the deployment and whole management of infrastructure. In this hands on blog I will show you how you can use Terraform to automate your cloud deployments in Azure. Initial Setup: For this blog I’m using a ubuntu server as a automation…
After the covid period, it was difficult to personally attend events for some times now… It’s finally over (we hope) and we can again travel and be part of these kind of amazing technical events. For this end of the year, with Nicolas Meunier and Donovan Winter, we had the opportunity to move to Barcelona to attend the DevOps Barcelona…
When it comes to quickly provision a server in the Cloud, using an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool is a solution to consider. There are many IaC products available and among them, Terraform seems to be the most popular. The following is a non-exhaustive list of Terraform advantages : – Terraform can deploy infrastructure to multiple cloud service providers simultaneously…
Introduction When you learn a cloud technology, like OCI, the one from Oracle, you start building your demo infrastructure with the web interface and numerous clicks. It’s convenient and easy to handle, even more if you’re quite used to infrastructure basics: network, routing, firewalling, servers, etc. But when it comes to build complex infrastructures with multiple servers, subnets, rules, databases,…
When I started to write the blog about AWS SSM I quickly realized that I need a way to bring up and destroy my AWS EC2 playground in an easy and reproducible way. There are several options for this: I could have used the AWS command line interface or AWS CloudFormation. Both work pretty well and would have been more…
Provisioning a K8s infrastructure may be performed in different ways. Terraform has a connector called the Kubernetes provider but it doesn’t allow building and deploying a Kubernetes cluster. The cluster must be up and running before using the provider. Fortunately, there are different cloud-specific provider depending which cloud provider you want to provision your cluster. In our CI pipeline for…
We are entering now to the infrastructure as code world and provisioning a SQL Server infrastructure is not excluded from the equation. This is especially true when it comes the Cloud regardless we are using IaaS or PaaS. One great tool to use in such scenario is certainly terraform and I introduced it during the last PowerSaturday pre-conference named “DBA…
Deploying a Cloudera distribution of Hadoop automatically is very interesting in terms of time-saving. Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, allow now to provision, manage and deploy configuration for large clusters. In this blog posts series, we will see how to deploy and install a CDH cluster with Terraform and Ansible in the Azure cloud. The…
