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Abandoned Kubernetes Configuration Ideas

From the beginning of the Kubernetes project, I had ideas and opinions about how declarative configuration should be supported. That led to…

3d ago

Abandoned Kubernetes Configuration Ideas

3d ago

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Non-Infrastructure-as-Code-based Cloud and Kubernetes management and automation tools

There is an another world of automation tools outside Infrastructure as Code (IaC) that can achieve many of the same objectives, and even…

Feb 24

Non-Infrastructure-as-Code-based Cloud and Kubernetes management and automation tools

Feb 24

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Can Configuration Languages (config DSLs) solve configuration complexity?

Can configuration languages dramatically reduce configuration complexity?

Feb 18

Can Configuration Languages (config DSLs) solve configuration complexity?

Feb 18

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Should all developers learn Infrastructure as Code?

Should all developers deploying to the cloud and/or Kubernetes learn how to use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools?

Feb 10

Should all developers learn Infrastructure as Code?

Feb 10

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Infrastructure as Code is too generic

Infrastructure as Code tools currently have no awareness of the purposes of configured resources or of the operations being performed.

Feb 3

Infrastructure as Code is too generic

Feb 3

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How Infrastructure as Code tool implementations differ from imperative tools’

How Infrastructure as Code is different from imperative user interface surfaces from an implementation point of view.

Jan 27

How Infrastructure as Code tool implementations differ from imperative tools’

Jan 27

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Packages in Infrastructure as Code

If you’ve used Infrastructure as Code (IaC), you’ve almost certainly used IaC packages. This post digs deeper into their uses and pitfalls.

Jan 20

Packages in Infrastructure as Code

Jan 20

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Variant generation is the primary capability of Infrastructure as Code

Variant generation, i.e. the generation of multiple distinct configurations from the same IaC code, is the primary capability of IaC.

Jan 13

Variant generation is the primary capability of Infrastructure as Code

Jan 13

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Evaluating and applying Infrastructure as Code is not like compiling and deploying application code

Practices for building and deploying applications are not ideal for provisioning via Infrastructure as Code, due to critical differences.

Jan 6

Evaluating and applying Infrastructure as Code is not like compiling and deploying application code

Jan 6

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The 12 Anti-factors of Infrastructure as Code

I discuss twelve “anti-factors” that make Infrastructure as Code suboptimal. This recaps my IaC posts from 2024.

Dec 30, 2024

The 12 Anti-factors of Infrastructure as Code

Dec 30, 2024

Brian Grant

Brian Grant

CTO of ConfigHub. Original lead architect of Kubernetes and its declarative model. Former Tech Lead of Google Cloud's API standards, SDK, CLI, and IaC.

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