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terraform
DevOps.com
3 hours ago
DevOps

Mind the Shift: Answering Common Questions About OpenTofu - DevOps.com

OpenTofu can serve as a 'drop-in replacement' for Terraform with minimal effort and adjustments, allowing for the continuation of using existing configurations, modules, and providers. [ more ]
InfoQ
6 days ago
DevOps

Terraform 1.8 Adds Provider-Defined Functions, Improves AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes Providers

HashiCorp released Terraform version 1.8 with provider-defined functions allowing custom functions in different providers. [ more ]
Amazon Web Services
6 days ago
DevOps

Automate Terraform Deployments with Amazon CodeCatalyst and Terraform Community action | Amazon Web Services

Amazon CodeCatalyst integrates CI/CD tools for efficient software delivery. [ more ]
Vercel
1 week ago
JavaScript

Vercel Terraform Provider v1.9 - Vercel

Vercel Terraform Provider enables managing Vercel projects using infrastructure-as-code. [ more ]
InfoQ
1 month ago
DevOps

Terraform 1.7 Adds Config-Driven Remove and Test Mocking Ahead of OpenTofu

Terraform 1.7 introduces config-driven remove capability for safer removal of resources from the managed stack.
Terraform 1.7 enhances the testing framework with mock providers and overrides, along with new import block functionality. [ more ]
The JetBrains Blog
2 months ago
DevOps

PyCharm 2024.1 EAP 8: Enhanced Support for Terraform | The PyCharm Blog

Enhanced Terraform support in PyCharm 2024.1 EAP
Improved code completion for third-party Terraform providers [ more ]
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automation
Theregister
1 week ago
JavaScript

Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindset

Drift detection and automated clean-up are crucial for managing infrastructure as code effectively. [ more ]
InfoQ
4 weeks ago
DevOps

Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture

Automation is crucial for maintainable and scalable cellular architecture.
Advancements in infrastructure as code simplify the problem-solving process. [ more ]
InfoQ
1 month ago
DevOps

Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture

Cellular architecture provides benefits like increased availability and engineering velocity.
Automating cellular infrastructure requires addressing isolation, cell creation, deployment, permissions, and monitoring. [ more ]
InfoWorld
1 month ago
DevOps

Code your infrastructure with Azure Automation

Deploying applications at scale in public cloud requires infrastructure as code and automation.
Microsoft's Azure Automation offers a programmatic approach with tools like runbooks and Desired State Configuration. [ more ]
Amazic
2 months ago
DevOps

10 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools that can be integrated into CI/CD pipelines - Amazic

Implementing IaC tools in a CI/CD pipeline automates infrastructure provisioning and configuration, improving efficiency and consistency.
Challenges of implementing IaC tools include a learning curve, security concerns, testing and debugging complexities, versioning and drift management, and integration with existing workflows. [ more ]
InfoQ
3 months ago
Software development

AWS Console-to-Code: Generating Code for Console Actions

AWS introduced Console-to-Code, which transforms console actions into reusable code for AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
Console-to-Code is currently in preview and supports only Amazon EC2. [ more ]
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aws-cloudformation
Amazon Web Services
1 month ago
DevOps

How we sped up AWS CloudFormation deployments with optimistic stabilization | Amazon Web Services

Optimistic stabilization strategy improves CloudFormation deployment times by up to 40% with CONFIGURATION_COMPLETE status
CloudFormation enables modeling and managing AWS resources through template files using various tools like AWS CLI, SAM, CDK, Application Composer. [ more ]
Amazon Web Services
2 months ago
DevOps

Best practices for managing Terraform State files in AWS CI/CD Pipeline | Amazon Web Services

Using Infrastructure-As-Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation and Terraform is crucial for efficient infrastructure management on AWS.
Managing Terraform state files in a secured, shared path is essential to prevent data loss, corruption, and unauthorized access. [ more ]
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iac
InfoQ
3 months ago
DevOps

AWS Launches CDK Migrate and CloudFormation IaC Generator for Infrastructure as Code Adoption

AWS announced the general availability of CDK Migrate, a tool that enables developers to migrate AWS CloudFormation templates into a CDK application.
AWS also launched the CloudFormation IaC Generator, which helps developers import resources created outside of CloudFormation into a template and a newly generated CloudFormation stack. [ more ]
Amazon Web Services
3 months ago
DevOps

Import entire applications into AWS CloudFormation | Amazon Web Services

AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) allows customers to manage and provision infrastructure at scale using code.
Customers can now use the IaC generator and CDK Migrate to create IaC configurations based on existing resources, including their relationships. [ more ]
moreiac
Theregister
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Developers seethe as Google surfaces buggy AI-written code

Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples generated by Pulumi AI, causing low-quality AI responses to appear at the top of search results. [ more ]
InfoQ
1 week ago
JavaScript

Reliable Web App Pattern: Now Optimizes Azure Migration with Enhanced Infrastructure and Security

The updated Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET by Microsoft emphasizes infrastructure as code practices, enhanced network security, and simplifying Azure migration for .NET web apps. [ more ]
TechCrunch
1 week ago
DevOps

The IBM-HashiCorp coupling could be more complicated than it seems | TechCrunch

An acquisition involves more than just a strategic fit; financial aspects must also be considered. [ more ]
Theregister
3 weeks ago
DevOps

Linux Foundation leads the fight against fauxpen source

Linux Foundation promoting open source projects like OpenTofu and Valkey against faux open source companies. [ more ]
Amazic
4 weeks ago
DevOps

7 Strategies and Best Practices for Automating CI/CD Pipelines - Amazic

Agile processes are replacing traditional software development for rapid delivery.
CI/CD automation improves speed, quality, and efficiency in software development. [ more ]
Amazon Web Services
1 month ago
DevOps

Terraform CI/CD and testing on AWS with the new Terraform Test Framework | Amazon Web Services

Terraform Modules streamline resource provisioning and offer a standardized deployment approach.
Manual testing in Terraform modules can be error-prone and inefficient, necessitating automated testing for reliability. [ more ]
DevOps.com
1 month ago
DevOps

The IaC Weight on DevOps' Shoulders - DevOps.com

Established tech companies struggle with DevOps culture, not just IaC syntax.
Legacy tendencies persist causing bottlenecks in development velocity. [ more ]
dzone.com
2 months ago
DevOps

BDD Framework for Terraform - DZone

Combining Behave with Terraform ensures infrastructure behaves as expected.
Testing Terraform configurations with Behave involves structured steps like installing Behave and writing feature files. [ more ]
Medium
2 months ago
Data science

Data Management Principles Underpinning the Use of Terraform Remote Backend

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) involves managing infrastructure through code, incorporating data management principles.
Using Terraform remote state enhances accuracy, consistency, and efficiency in infrastructure monitoring and management. [ more ]
DevOps.com
2 months ago
Information security

Why DevOps is Key to Software Supply Chain Security - DevOps.com

DevOps emphasizes rapid, high-quality service delivery.
DevSecOps integrates security into the software delivery process to combat supply chain attacks. [ more ]
The New Stack
3 months ago
DevOps

Q&A: HashiCorp CTO Armon Dadgar on IDPs and IaC

HashiCorp is developing an Internal Developer Platform called Waypoint.
Waypoint aims to help developers deploy applications built on Infrastructure as Code patterns. [ more ]
InfoQ
3 months ago
DevOps

Harnessing AI-Generated Cloudformation with Application Composer

The AWS Toolkit for VS Code now supports AWS Application Composer, allowing users to create Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates for over 1100 AWS CloudFormation resources.
Application Composer provides a visual interface where users can drag and drop CloudFormation resources to create comprehensive applications.
Generative AI is used to automatically create resource-specific configurations, with built-in safeguards and validation against the CloudFormation schema. [ more ]
CodeProject
3 months ago
DevOps

Leveraging Bicep to deploy Azure resources

Cloud adoption has resulted in the need for more robust processes for developing and deploying applications.
Infrastructure as code treats infrastructure as code, allowing it to be versioned, tested, and deployed with the same practices used for application code. [ more ]
Amazon Web Services
5 months ago
DevOps

Automate safe AWS CloudFormation deployments from GitHub | Amazon Web Services

AWS CloudFormation now supports using Git sync to automatically trigger deployments from tracked Git repositories
The integration with Git enables developers to speed up the development cycle for CloudFormation and reduce context switching
Developers can create a cloud development environment using GitHub Codespaces and use the CloudFormation Linter extension to validate templates before deployment [ more ]
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