Terraform Pipelines for Dummies Part1: GitHub Actions AWS Deploy (OIDC)

Intro Did you know that 12 millions secrets were publicly exposed in GitHub in 2023 alone? This is additional evidence that leaked secrets rhyme with financial and reputation loss for users, organizations and even states. The worst thing to do is make it easy for hackers to infiltrate your company’s system. This is where workload …

OCI FortiGate HA Cluster – Reference Architecture: Code review & Fixes

Intro OCI Quick Start repositories on GitHub are collections of Terraform scripts and configurations provided by Oracle. These repositories are designed to help organizations quickly deploy common infrastructure setups on the OCI Platform. Each Quick Start focuses on a specific use case or workload, simplifying the process of provisioning on OCI using Terraformβ€”a sort of …

Terraform for dummies part 6: Deploy a static website on Alibaba Cloud

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 …

Optimizing GitHub Workflows: How to Auto cleanup your cache after use

Intro In the CI/CD space, every second counts like in an F1 race. That’s where GitHub Actions cache comes in. Caching is like a pit stop for your code – it saves precious time by providing pre-loaded resources to speed up pipeline execution by storing and reusing previously downloaded dependencies. However, cache use especially in …

Deploy multilevel OCI sub-compartments with terraform (using local module)

  Intro In my previous blogpost, we explored the challenges with relying on terraform registry modules for code sanity checks. Additionally, we reviewed OCI iam-compartment module and I shared my revised version in my Github. Today, we’ll demonstrate how to deploy multi-level OCI compartments using my local module (iam-compartment), which you can easily clone from my …