by truthbrother | May 7, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
This is Part 2 of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series. In Part 1, we explained why we picked Terraform as our IAC tool of choice and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation. In this post, we’re going to introduce the basics of how to use...
by truthbrother | Dec 29, 2020 | Terraform by HashiCorp, Amazon Web Services, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, Packer by HashiCorp
If you search the Internet for “infrastructure-as-code”, it’s pretty easy to come up with a list of the most popular tools: ChefPuppetAnsibleSaltStackCloudFormationTerraform What’s not easy is figuring out which one of these you should use. All of these tools can be...
by truthbrother | Dec 24, 2020 | Kubernetes, Ansible
A question I’ve been hearing a lot lately is “why are you still using Ansible in your Kubernetes projects?” Followed often by “what’s the point of writing your book Ansible for Kubernetes when Ansible isn’t really...
by truthbrother | Dec 23, 2020 | Amazon Web Services
We launched the t1.micro instance type in 2010, and followed up with the first of the T2 instances (micro, small, and medium) in 2014, more sizes in 2015 (nano) and 2016 (xlarge and 2xlarge), and unlimited bursting last year. Today we are launching T3 instances in...
by truthbrother | Apr 27, 2020 | Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3
I want to host a static website on an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. Then, I want to serve my website through an Amazon CloudFront distribution. How can I do that? Short Description To serve a static website hosted on Amazon S3, you can deploy a...