Terraform

Automating my operations - aka DevOps As part of my day job, I regularly interact with systems such as jenkins, terraform, ansible/salt, etc.. without really understand the full power of these systems and what they enable. Time to change and dive in deeper and actually use them for my personal projects. So, what are common tasks that I need to automate: Creating / Destroying the necessary infrastructure, such as setting up VM’s with a sane default firewall with all the common dependencies pre-built into the image or installed as part of user-data. Deploying the apps to the setup machines with any necessary configuration Shutting down and restarting services Updating configuration Deploying new changes to the machines Creating a staging/dev environment to test changes in before they are deployed to production. These tasks can usually be automated and managed via: ...