Shall we play a game?… A sustainable on-call duty is critical for any Incident response, providing the human filter for the reliability and availability of services that are under the watchful care of the engineering team. The key word is sustainable. Burnout from sleep peppered with PagerDuty alerts, complex and adrenaline pumping incidents can take…

In the DevOps space, we take for granted that we can now easily scale our infrastructure outside of the boundaries of our safe and secured data centers, spin up as many instances that we could possibly want, and all with a touch of a button (or maybe a few keystrokes)…

This article will describe how you can use feature toggling for creating Terraform resources with a single feature flag. For context I hadn’t realised I needed one until I blew away my dev Jenkins EC2 instance, luckily I had automated snapshots created by our nightly Lambda function. So the problem…

In my previous article, we conquered WINRM to build our golden AMI using Packer, installed our custom applications using chocolatey and overcame connectivity issues with RDP. I now had a working AMI in AWS that I could use to spawn multiple copies on demand. It was time to automate the…

Automating a deployment of a Windows 2016 Server on AWS should be easy right, after all deploying an ubuntu server with Packer and Terraform was as easy as typing Packer Build and Terraform apply! Easy.. well maybe not that easy. …