terraform
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DevOps
Terragrunt vs Terraform: Battle of DevOps tools
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become widely adopted by many, including in production environments, development labs, and by home lab enthusiasts to deploy infrastructure. Terraform is arguably one of the top tools used by DevOps professionals. However, there is another…
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DevOps
Terraform Import Existing Resource: Ultimate Guide
Infrastructure as code (IaC) has become a standard for managing complex IT infrastructures. Terraform, a key player in the IaC sphere, is quite familiar to DevOps engineers and developers alike. One of the essential commands within the Terraform toolset is…
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DevOps
Terraform remote exec provisioner to run shell commands
If you are delving into using Terraform in your production or home lab environment, it is a great way to automate your infrastructure, either in a private cloud or public cloud environment. The Terraform provisioner block allows running commands on…
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DevOps
Terraform prompt for variable input when creating a virtual machine
Terraform is a great infrastructure as code scripting language from Hashicorp. I use it day in and day out in the lab and in production environments to streamline the process of deploying infrastructure. In the lab environment, I have had…
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DevOps
Terraform AWS Windows Instance Code
Most of the time, if you are like me, you use Terraform to configure Linux EC2 instances for provisioning in AWS. However, you may have the need for Terraform AWS Windows instance code. In this simple walkthrough, I will show…
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Kubernetes
Terraform vSphere Kubernetes automated lab build in 8 minutes
While Kubernetes has been wildly popular for quite some time now, I think many are just starting their journey of learning Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. If you are like me, you have goals of sharpening your Kubernetes skills in 2022.…
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DevOps
Linux DevOps tools: Building Linux Infrastructure as Code Workstation
I have been doing quite a bit of DevOps work the past few months and have found myself working with Linux tools more and more. With this being said, I have built up a Linux DevOps workstation to use as…
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Windows Server 2022
Automated Windows Server 2022 Packer Build
As Windows Server 2022 Preview is now officially released, I wanted to get my automated build of the Preview release in the home lab and ready to go for testing the newest Windows Server operating system. With this being said,…
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Automation
Terraform vSphere tutorial: Linux Virtual Machine Clone
Terraform is a great infrastructure as code (IaC) platform that allows easily spinning up and customizing infrastructure. The great thing is you can use it for many different environments, not just VMware vSphere. However, for this Terraform vSphere tutorial, I…
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DevOps
Terraform for Azure Tutorial
Modernizing the way IT operations is able to provision, manage, and provide the needed resources for development necessitates the need to automate processes. This is especially true in cloud environments like Microsoft Azure. Terraform is gaining wide adoption as the…
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