We’ve been using terraform at Zapier for over a year now and recently I was adding a new feature and looking over our large collection of IAM policy documents that are included through interpolation using the file function. One detail I noticed is that we have a lot of policies…

Previously we setup packer, docker and ansible to build a very simple docker image that simply placed a file under /root with some content, a very simple start. Today we’ll go further and explore using ansible roles and making some…

Previously we modified our setup to use a role from ansible galaxy to install and configure redis. One key thing lacking here is that one rarely needs to just use a role from ansible galaxy by itself so next up we’ll modify our playbook to…

Here’s an interesting problem our team faced last month that was extremely infuriating. We were in the process of launching replacement haproxy instances that are used to load balance to nodes in our RabbitMQ cluster. We’ve done this a…

One must have tool for any language is the availability of a REPL to quickly check out the syntax of an API or test out an idea really quick. Ansible is no different, especially since sometimes you might have a very long running playbook and it may be difficult to wait…