Published inGruntwork·Oct 25Gruntwork Newsletter, October, 2023Every few months, we send out a newsletter to all Gruntwork customers that describes all the updates we’ve made since the last newsletter and news from the DevOps industry. …Gruntwork Newsletter5 min readGruntwork Newsletter5 min read
Published inGruntwork·Aug 21Gruntwork Newsletter, August, 2023Every few months, we send out a newsletter to all Gruntwork customers that describes all the updates we’ve made since the last newsletter and news from the DevOps industry. …Gruntwork Newsletter9 min readGruntwork Newsletter9 min read
Published inGruntwork·Aug 16DevOps FoundationsFast, secure, reliable AWS environments using Terraform — To go fast in a car, a powerful engine is not enough. For example, F1 race cars not only have ~1,000 hp engines that can take you from 0 to 186 mph in about 8 seconds, but just as importantly, they also have carbon-ceramic brakes that can take you from…DevOps17 min readDevOps17 min read
Published inGruntwork·Aug 15The future of Terraform must be openOur plan and pledge to keep Terraform open source — On August 10, 2023, HashiCorp announced that after ~9 years of Terraform being open source under the MPL v2 license, they were suddenly switching it to a non open source BSL v1.1 license. We believe the BSL license is a poison pill for Terraform which threatens the entire community and…Open Source9 min readOpen Source9 min read
Published inGruntwork·Sep 28, 2022Terraform: Up & Running, 3rd edition is now published!Part 2 of a blog post series that covers the top 10 problems that have been fixed in Terraform since the 2nd edition — I’m excited to announce that the 3rd edition of Terraform: Up & Running has been published! It includes over 100 pages of new content, including two totally new chapters, one on managing secrets with Terraform and one on working with multiple providers, plus major changes to all the existing chapters…Terraform12 min readTerraform12 min read
Published inGruntwork·Aug 18, 2022How to manage multiple environments with Terraform using TerragruntThis is part 3 of the How to manage multiple environments with Terraform blog post series. In the second part of the series, you saw how to use branches to manage multiple environments with Terraform. …Terraform10 min readTerraform10 min read
Published inGruntwork·Aug 18, 2022How to manage multiple environments with Terraform using branchesThis is part 2 of the How to manage multiple environments with Terraform blog post series. In the first part of the series, you saw how to use workspaces to manage multiple environments with Terraform. …Terraform7 min readTerraform7 min read
Published inGruntwork·Aug 18, 2022How to manage multiple environments with Terraform using workspacesThis is part 1 of the How to manage multiple environments with Terraform blog post series. In this post, I’ll show you how to manage multiple environments with Terraform using workspaces: Setting up environments using workspaces Switching between environments Using different configurations in each environment Using different backends in each…Terraform10 min readTerraform10 min read
Published inGruntwork·Aug 18, 2022How to manage multiple environments with TerraformA comparison of using workspaces, branches, and Terragrunt You used Terraform to deploy one environment (e.g., development), and things are working great, but now you need to deploy several more environments (e.g., staging, production), and you need to figure out how to organize your code. Should you use workspaces? Or…Terraform2 min readTerraform2 min read
Published inGruntwork·Aug 1, 2022Cloud Adoption Fails5 Ways Deployments Go Wrong and 5 Solutions — All happy cloud deployments are alike; each unhappy cloud deployment is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Site Reliability Engineer At Gruntwork, we’ve had the chance to see the cloud adoption journeys of hundreds of companies, from tiny startups to Fortune 50 giants. We’ve seen many of those journeys…DevOps1 min readDevOps1 min read
