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Infrastructure Drift: Detecting and Preventing It

Your Terraform says the firewall rule is A. The cloud console says it's B. Someone changed it manually and didn't tell anyone. This is infrastructur…

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Why clicking in consoles stops working Your first cloud resources come from clicking. You open the AWS console, click through a wizard, create a ser…

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The Problem with Click-Ops Dashboards Your team has 200 dashboards. You don't know who owns them. Half are broken. The rest show yesterday's reality…

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When Terraform Gets Slow Our Terraform state file grew to 500+ resources. Plans took 8 minutes. Applies timed out. State locking conflicts were dail…

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I have watched a CloudFormation deploy fail at minute nine because I misspelled a property, and I have quietly made peace with the fact that this is…

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The origin story explained why Dinghy renders TSX to Terraform. This post is the how , at two levels. First we create an EC2 instance by hand from t…

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Overview Terraform and Pulumi are the two leading infrastructure as code tools. Terraform uses HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) while Pulumi l…

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The transition to Infrastructure as Code revolutionized how engineering teams deploy and manage cloud resources. Instead of relying on error-prone m…

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In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, infrastructure management is becoming increasingly complex. To navigate this complexity and automate proce…

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Terraform defines desired state. Kubernetes reconciles workload state. Cloud consoles expose state. None of those systems decides whether infrastruc…