The Ultimate DevOps Sandbox “Tired of juggling multiple VMs for your DevOps stack? Get it all in one place with the ultimate DevOps VM—just one command, zero hassle.” Intro This idea’s been chilling in my mind for ages while I was playing around with Vagrant. I’ve lost count of the number of cool builds I’ve …
Intro 3 years ago, I started the terraform for dummies series where I wanted to deploy a static website in any cloud provider there was (the dummy in question was me duh:)). But the mistake most of us make is to think AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud are the only Hyperscalers out there. Wrong! Alibaba …
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Intro Automating infrastructure provisioning with Terraform is nothing for many, but to truly harness IaC power, seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines is key. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of setting up and running your Terraform configurations within GitLab CI from an GitHub imported repo. This powerful combination not only ensures consistent …
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Intro Sometimes secrets in the real world aren’t as secret as we think! Although it can be scary, it’s really easy to show the content of your secret in GitHub actions log. You might not mind if your repo is private but if it is public and your Open Source project still needs things to …
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Intro This year I set a goal to explore and learn most popular CI solutions like GitLab, including all cloud native ones. My first pick had to be GitHub Actions, which I heard a lot of but never used. So I decided to plunge into it to see how rich the solution was. Since I …
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