In this short article, we will take a look at the terraform refresh command. Warning: This command is deprecated, because its default behavior is unsafe if you have misconfigured credentials for any of your providers. How Terraform Refresh works When creating a terraform plan or running terraform apply, a refresh of the state of…

In this blog post, we will explore templating with Ansible to parametrize configuration files and leverage variables in templates. What are Ansible templates? Templates are useful in cases where we would like to reuse a file but with different parameters for various use cases or environments. If you are new…

Whenever you are choosing to make a change, the biggest problem you are facing is migration. You see a product, and you fall in love with it, but after that, you start thinking that it will be too much work to migrate from the old one to the new one…

Security is one of Spacelift’s biggest priorities, and apart from the state-of-the-art security solutions that are embedded inside the product like Policy as Code, Encryption, Single Sign On (SSO), Private Worker Pools, and others, in some organizations, there are tools that engineers were accustomed to and want to have the…

In the Infrastructure as Code world, estimating costs can be a nightmare for many enterprises. I’ve seen many companies doing extensive research between Cloud Vendors to find out which has the better prices and also to see what their bills would look like at the end of the month. This…

Let’s face it, managing infrastructure at scale, deploying it, and handling drift is pretty hard to do on our own. DevOps Engineers have to use so many tools nowadays, and they simply can’t have the same level of knowledge in all of them. As we are humans, the possibility of…

In this blog post, we’ll explore the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF) and how it allows developers to use familiar languages to define their Terraform infrastructure, making it easier to manage and maintain. If you are new to Terraform, check out the numerous Terraform articles and guides hosted on…

How to create a CRD and why use them? — In this article we will explore Custom resource definitions (CRDs) in Kubernetes (K8S), explain what they are, possible use cases, and how to get started creating your own CRDs. What is CRD in Kubernetes? Kubernetes (K8S) has a set of objects ready for use out of the box. But what if you wanted K8S to…

This blog post will dive deep into Ansible Vault as a mechanism for keeping your sensitive values and secrets secure in your playbooks and other Ansible files. We will explore different options for working with encrypted content and password management options. If you are new to Ansible or interested in…