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…

Originally published at https://spacelift.io. The Elastic Container Service (ECS) from Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a fully-managed cloud Container Orchestration Service. It runs multiple Docker containers on the cluster using AWS EC2 instances. Optionally it is also possible to run these containers on Fargate. The more AWS ECS Clusters we…

Originally published at https://spacelift.io. More and more organizations are adopting IaC to codify their infrastructure requirements and streamline the maintenance processes around it. While Terraform is one of the dominant technologies today in the space of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), there is still a lot of scope of improvement. …

In this short article, we will take a look at gitignore, explaining what it is and why you might want to use it. We will show some useful examples and practical files you can use with your Terraform projects! What is gitignore? A .gitignore file is a text file used by Git to…

Originally published at https://spacelift.io. Terraform is one of the most in-demand open-source tools for deploying and managing infrastructure as code (IaC). As it continues to push the boundaries of IaC, web-based repository hosting platforms like GitHub are being used widely for storing Terraform code and other artifacts. This blog aims…

Originally published at https://spacelift.io. Scaling AWS infrastructure is essential to accommodate the increasing demands of the environment. Not only it helps to maintain high service reliability, but it also optimizes AWS resource utilization. However, the process of scaling AWS infrastructure isn’t as complex as most people think. AWS has excellent…

Originally published at https://spacelift.io. Modern infrastructure management revolves around “secrets” to ensure high environmental security. While most organizations are adopting Infrastructure as Code, managing secrets becomes challenging for technical teams. In this post, we will explore multiple ways of managing the secrets with Terraform code. We will cover: Where are…

Originally published at https://spacelift.io. Cloud adoption has become a de facto standard today. The need to scale up and scale down the resources on demand, paying only for the resources you consume, and convenience are some of the major reasons for its adoption. While there are many benefits of cloud…

Originally published at https://spacelift.io. Terraform allows IaC developers to automate the provisioning and management of several cloud resources. It leverages a declarative syntax to describe the deployment state and then applies it to the target environment. Terraform developers use various types of variables to store and process values. One such…