Solutions from the DevOps front lines
One of the problems that’s been present in Terraform for a while is that any secrets that make their way in to your state remain visible in the clear. The state is, after all, just a big JSON document. There is an arg...
A long while ago I wrote about how to configure centralised State Locking for Terraform using Dynamo DB. This configuration has become battle tested and fairly low cost solution for anyone using Terraform in AWS and s...
Recently I found myself working with AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) to host a simple application and using using AWS Fargate as the underlying compute. This pairing bills itself as a simple means of deploying con...
If you’re trying your hand at implementing a CI pipeline with Github Actions and AWS you would be forgiven for finding yourself going in circles with some pretty confusing documentation when it comes to trying to get ...
If you’re using Terraform in AWS you’ll very quickly find yourself needing to work with AWS Subnets. This can be a surprisingly fussy and in a lot of Terraform configs you tend to see the same solution being employed;...