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

by CloudDudeUncategorized November 5, 2023July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

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

by CloudDudeUncategorized August 16, 2023July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

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)

by CloudDudeUncategorized August 11, 2023July 7, 2024Comments are Disabled

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 …

How to Deploy Multi-Region Resources with Terraform: example(OCI Public IPs)

by CloudDudeUncategorized June 29, 2023July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Intro As with any software, terraform also has hidden gems waiting to be discovered, even after you’ve obtained your associate certification. Some features aren’t always known until you need them, which is why we still a a lot to learn from the product. Today is one of those days! In this post, I will show …

My corrected OCI-IAM-compartment Terraform Module

by CloudDudeUncategorized June 16, 2023July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Intro So, turns out I’ve been living in the Stone Age of Terraform. I thought keeping my code lean and mean was the way to go, but apparently, the cool kids are all about terraform modules. They’re all like, “Modularity! Reusability! It’s the secret sauce of Infrastructure as Code!”. Up until now, with my …

Terraform tips: How to Recover Your Deployment From a Terraform apply Crash

by CloudDudeUncategorized February 1, 2023July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

— “Because sh*t happens, be ready for when it does!” — Intro Infrastructure Automation is a lifesaver for OPS teams in their day-to-day duties, but when it comes to givin’ full control to new tools and frameworks, watch out for problems that can no longer be fixed manually. It’s also a reminder that it is …

Terraform live cost estimate using infracost free plugin

by CloudDudeUncategorized August 19, 2022July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Intro The cloud offers unlimited scalability at lower costs with the available resources. Companies enable their engineering teams to launch infrastructure as and when needed. However, since costs aren’t shown to engineers before Cloud resources are deployed, the real cost implications are unknown. That causes higher than expected costs and ballooning budgets over time, which …

Hashicorp Terraform Associate certification takeaways

by CloudDudeUncategorized April 29, 2022July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Intro The thing we usually forget when completing a certification is to save a mental image of the topics that were exciting to learn or the concepts that we had no clue about right before starting the preparation. This is what practitioners should focus on after every major Cloud cert exam, as it provides an …

Terraform for dummies part 6: Deploy Oracle DB System 21c using terraform

by CloudDudeUncategorized April 16, 2022July 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Intro What’s the point of moving a database to the Cloud if we can’t automatically deploy it. After blogging about web compute provisioning on AWS,OCI, Azure, & GCP using terraform. The least I could do as a (future-ex) DBA is to terraform database provisioning in Oracle Cloud. On top of that, I also wanted to …

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