Category: DevOps

Migrating from AWS EC2 to AWS Lightsail.
Migrating a Wordpress App from EC2 to Lightsail for cost savings.

The case against Terraform to prevent vendor lock-in.
While I like Terraform, using it to prevent vendor lock in is bul***it; The belief of preventing vendor lock in is a false promise of…

Terraform 0.12 Preview from Hashicorp
Hashicorp has release a preview of the up coming Terraform 0.12 release. The announcement post covers a number of topics; from improvements to the HCL…

Gatling, a load testing tool with a difference.
Gatling allows the user (developer/operator) to record a series of actions in the browser of choosing. At the tempo of a real user, multiple steps,…
SRE, DevOps, WTF, OMGBBQ.
Google put together an article and a nice set of videos explaining DevOps and SREs. It’s a bit…cheeky but to the point and not techno-babble…
First real foray into using Terraform to manage infrastructure as code (IAC)
Did this during the afternoon at work, since they use Terraform (TF) pretty heavily I am getting familiar with it as much as possible. Enjoy!…