Deciding when to learn something new is often a question that is not given enough thought. People tend to take up new personal learning initiatives in the spur of the moment, only to lose that momentum a few weeks down the line. They don’t realize that the amount of time…

I have always said — it is a great time to be in tech. But to realize this, one needs to keep themselves updated with the latest trends. It is a well-known fact that if the learning stops, the slow death of the IT career starts. Learning is the foundation…

Have you recently admired AWS cloud platform capabilities? Are you appealed by the pay-as-you-use pricing model? Are you looking forward to hosting your products and services on AWS? Then you should also be prepared to spend hours figuring out why you are paying that penny! Today AWS offers 200+ Managed…

Category: AWS Well-Architected Framework Cloud providers like AWS have already made lives easy by taking all your infrastructure-related worries away. This comes at a cost, but it is still very cost-efficient. Moreover, talking about costs — just doesn’t stop here. As they say, there is always scope for improvement. …

Category: AWS Well Architected Framework The title of the post could also be read as — “Why don’t you want to save money?”. Well there it is, the answer to the question, you may not even read further. However, if you are interested to know certain aspects of AWS Cloud Cost Optimization then this post…

Note: I am doing this blog post in collaboration with Infracode. These guys are super-cool and are working on some amazing products in IaC realm. Meta-arguments are special constructs provided for resources. In InfraCode’s blog, “An Introduction to Terraform Templates,” they explain that the resource blocks are where we declare…

In this series, we have been using Terraform by ourselves. We defined the infrastructure — created a plan, created the infrastructure itself and also we saved our code to Github. We had the choice to store and maintain states locally. However, using Terraform in a team where more than one…

Okay, enough talking about creating cloud resources! We have created a couple of instances using our Terraform code. But, now what? We usually spin up cloud resources for some purpose. When the resources are successfully created, it is rather a start of something. What are provisioners? Cloud resources by themselves are not much…

In this post, we discuss backends that can be used with Terraform. Working with backends is essential when a larger team works on developing Terraform code. …