Cloud

This article intends to provide insight into the native approach of doing Terraform to import the cloud resources into the terraform state file which might reside in your local system / remote back-end. Before get started, Let’s go through some of the concepts, What is the purpose of the state…

In case you haven’t seen the international headlines: Mineiros, published an introduction blog post for Terramate, an orchestrator and code generator for Terraform environments at scale. Please read it in our blog if you want to become a better human and awesome at Terraform. Jokes aside, this article dives deeper…

This is mostly a theoretical blog about the journey into the cloud, about the process and my experiences moving workloads into different cloud providers working as a DevOps engineer, Cloud Architect, SRE, DBA, SysAdmin, Superman and as a firefighter. Migrations Over the past few years I have had the opportunity of…

We love working with Rust in my team at Lumen®, where we develop the backend infrastructure for the Lumen® Mesh Delivery and Lumen® CDN Load Balancer technologies: it is a language that boasts great performance, brings valuable compile-time guarantees and is very expressive and feature-complete. However, when we recently needed…

Hot swap magic — Uptime Here at Checkout.com, we process payments — and as the Wolf of Wall Street taught us, money never sleeps. It’s always flowing, 24 hours a day, 365.25 days a year. As the engineering department for a company that processes payments, we cannot remain locked in stasis while the system runs…

Because you ain’t getting one any other way — In the American summer of 1954, MIT lecturer John Backus proposed a model of computational resource allocation that envisioned institutions sharing one — at the time very large — powerful computer, as opposed to several smaller ones. It meant that teams who may not have the budget, nor the necessary…

Introduction: Maintaining the inventory file while using Ansible with AWS will be a time-consuming operation since, AWS often changes IP addresses, auto-scales instances, and more. However, ansible dynamic inventory is a simple fix. Dynamic inventory is an Ansible plugin that makes a run-time API call to Amazon Web Services to…