Terraform for dummies part 5: Terraform deployment On-premises (KVM)

Intro For a long time, Terraform was associated with deploying resources in the cloud. But what many people don’t know is that terraform already had private and community based providers that worked perfectly on non cloud environments. Today, we will discover how to deploy a compute vm in a KVM host. Not only that, but …

KVM lab inside a VirtualBox vm (Nested virtualization) using vagrant

Intro It has been a while since I wanted to blog about nested virtualization, but the good news is I now have a vagrant build to share with you so you can  vagrant it up:). KVM started to interest me as soon as I learned that Oracle allowed for hard partitioning on KVM boxes if …

Create a local Windows10 VPN bastion using a vagrant box

Intro There are many examples online on how to create a linux vagrant box including mine. But not so much around windows boxes. The easiest way?  just shop around in Vagrant Cloud, identify a windows box, and spin it using vagrant up. That’s exactly what I did but I faced a problem after the trial …

Terraform for dummies part 4: Launch an vm with a static website on GCP

Intro After AWS,Oracle Cloud, and Azure, GCP is the 4th cloud platform in our terraform tutorial series, we will describe what it takes to authenticate and provision a compute engine using their terraform provider. The instance will also have an nginx website linked to its public IP. If you want to know about the differences …

Terraform for dummies part 3: Launch a vm with a static website on Azure

Intro In this tutorial we will try provisioning a vm on azure using their terraform provider and reproduce the same deployment I have completed on AWS and Oracle Cloud.  As usual we won’t just deploy an instance but also configure an nginx website linked to its public IP. I’ll end this post with some notes …