RevDB general category
Creating repositories with ease My second holiday project this year is publishing this module. With RevDB, we have to manage dozens if not hundreds of Github repositories, in many different organizations with a variety of contributors. Find the referenced modules at the Github repository and the Terraform registry for some Read more…
What will you need Bastion (or jumpbox) hosts are typically used, to provide a door into your private network. The fact that you are reading this, means you probably already know that. Answering the question on how to setup a bastion host on aws using Terraform, takes a lot of Read more…
Why manage your zones with terraform Infrastructure as code gives us a set of possibilities that, that otherwise difficult to accomplish, such as testing changes before committing and of course, CI/CD options. All of those are great to have, but not every team [feels like they] need testing, before making Read more…
What’s a highly available Chef Server To be honest with you, I feel like the title is a little bit of a click bait. There is already a description of how to create and operate chef clusters on chef.io. However, clusters of that size and complexity can be a little Read more…
Have you ever thought about what is the most boring part of your job? If you are like me, that would be talking to auditors. It is hard to imagine more mundane task than proving PCI DSS compliance. The work is highly manual, very hard to automate. Yet, the result Read more…
What do we need chef backup and restore for In my last blog post, that you can find here, I wrote about how to build a Chef server. The post uses Terraform and a git repository. That means, whenever you want, you can easily just build another one for yourself. Read more…
Overview of the content Our very own Aleks Kuzminsky, have blogged about the next set of challenges we face in the MySQL World. Getting our hands dirty, the first step is to have a solid and reliable way to manage our servers. This is a special need of any service Read more…
It was discussed many times before on many forums. The databases grow in number of instances, in size, in variety of flavors and in number of places where they run. They also get more expensive to run. Let’s review each of the problems. Like kids the database starts small and Read more…