Terraform

FIX: Terraform "Error: Run variables are currently not supported"

Recently I had to create a new workspace on an existing project to test some new functionality. So I create the workspace and run the…

How To: Database clustering with MariaDB and Galera.

The Situation MariaDB, a fork of MySQL, has had multi-master clustering support from the the initial version 10 release. However, the more recent releases have…

How-to: Easily update MariaDB from 10.0 onward on Cent OS 7

The Situation Recently I had to update the database services in an number of environments. The reasons were the typical ones: performance, bug fixes, keeping-up-with-the-jones,…

Opinion: Bad pay-wall implementations and how to get around them.

Like ’em or hate ’em paywalls have been around since the early days of the web. And from the business perspective I fully understand why…

How to: Delete a stubborn Kubernetes namespaces.

The Situation Recently I was introduced to a new project. The getting started documentation was decent and I was able to get the project started…

Trial: 30 days with VueJs

Is VueJS worther your time? Like any other tech, tool it depends on the problem at hand. Read on to see if vueJS is the…

Intro: k3s, a less needy Kubernetes.

What is all this? The official documentation states “…k3s is a intended to be a fully compliant production-grade Kubernetes distribution with [the following] changes…”. But…

Intro: Hashicorp `Packer`

The problem space… In today’s modern application development process an applications has many homes. Local development, (docker) containers, on premise Linux servers, maybe even Unix…

AWS IaC (Infrastructure as Code) is about to get a whole lot more interesting.

From the AWS “Whats New” news feed: Posted On: Jul 11, 2019 The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is now generally available in TypeScript and…
Terraform

Tagging with Terraform

Using cloud resources can be accelerating to the business, liberating to the engineering teams, and expensive to bank account. If you have every left a…