The GitOps Bridge: Keep Terraform and ArgoCD Out of Each Other's Way
Two tools, two clocks. Terraform provisions the cluster, the node groups, the networking, the IAM. It changes rarely and under heavy approval. ArgoC…
Architecture
⚑ Report a ProblemLatest Architecture news from Tech News
All topics
agents
ai
api
architecture
automation
aws
backend
beginners
career
database
devchallenge
devops
javascript
llm
machinelearning
mcp
news
opensource
performance
productivity
programming
python
react
security
showdev
softwareengineering
systemdesign
tutorial
typescript
webdev
My OCI sandbox factory now installs on a Free Tier account, with no card
Every time I showed people the thing I built — a chat that spins up Oracle Cloud sandboxes and deletes them when their time is up — the reply was th…
Cloud Resume Challenge Week 3— Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CI/CD with GitHub Actions
Chunk 3 is complete — and this one pushed me the furthest outside my comfort zone. Infrastructure as Code, remote state management, and a fully auto…
I Built a Multi-Region Pilot Light on AWS. The Diagram Was the Easy Part.
Most disaster recovery write-ups stop at the diagram. You get two boxes, an arrow labelled "replicate", and an RTO that was never measured. I wanted…
Building an Event-Driven Order Processing System with AWS Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, EventBridge, and Terraform
In my previous AWS projects, I worked with services such as DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM, and Terraform. This time, I wanted to build some…
I Built a Serverless Resume Site on AWS. Here's Everything That Broke Along the Way
After a decade in insurance operations, I decided to make my pivot into cloud engineering official by doing the Cloud Resume Challenge ! I wanted to…
From Zero to Production AWS in One `terraform apply`: A Look at terraform-aws-infrastructure
If you've ever spent an afternoon clicking through the AWS console to wire up a VPC, subnets, an ALB, TLS certificates, and a CloudFront distributio…
Enabling Karpenter on EKS with Terraform: What It Is, Why It's Worth It, and How to Set It Up
Karpenter replaces the old "guess an instance type, set a min/max, wait for Cluster Autoscaler" model with something simpler: watch for pods that ca…
Why Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS Are Becoming Essential Cloud Skills in 2026 ☁️🚀
The cloud industry is changing fast. A few years ago, knowing how to launch a virtual machine was enough to get started with cloud computing. Today,…
AWS VPC Networking Fundamentals: VPCs, Subnets, CIDR, Route Tables, IGW, and NAT Gateways
If you've provisioned a VPC from a Terraform module without fully internalising what each piece is doing, that's fine — right up until something bre…
I Deployed Google's Online Boutique on AWS EKS — Full Production Setup, Zero App Code Changes
The Setup Google's Online Boutique is an open-source 11-service e-commerce demo — Go, Python, Node.js, C#, and Java, all communicating over gRPC. It…
Daily Dose of DevOps — Terraform remote state explained
Terraform Remote State Explained Terraform is a powerful tool for infrastructure as code, but managing state files can be a complex task. The terraf…
Terraform: The Future of Cloud Infrastructure Automation ☁️🚀
"Stop clicking. Start automating." Cloud infrastructure has transformed the way we build applications. But imagine creating dozens of servers, datab…
Day 13: Data Sources — Stop Hardcoding, Start Automating
Understanding Terraform Data Sources and Why They Matter Terraform data sources provide a way to query and reference existing resources in your AWS…
Complete OCI Free Tier Infrastructure Guide - Part 01: Setup & Local Provider Mirror
Setting up Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using Terraform gives you an automated, reproducible "Always Free" cloud environment. However, managing…
My Terraform Drift Pipeline Fixed the Change, Then Forgot It
My Terraform drift pipeline could detect a manual EC2 tag change, classify it as LOW, and run Terraform to remove it. Then the pipeline moved on. Th…
RAG Powered Apps with Amazon Bedrock, Part 2: Automating the RAG Pipeline with Terraform
Before you start: This picks up where Part 1 left off. From part 1, you would've learned how to setup a Bedrock Knowledge Base in the console. In ad…
Event-Driven AWS Security Automation: Real-Time Detection and Remediation with Terraform and Pulumi
cloudguard-pro is an event-driven AWS security platform that detects and automatically remediates cloud misconfigurations. Seven Lambda functions, a…
Automating Dell PowerProtect Backup on AWS: A Terraform-Based Approach
Organizations running Dell PowerProtect backup on AWS face a recurring challenge: the multi-appliance ecosystem — PPDM (PowerProtect Data Manager),…
Proving Zero Trust Actually Works: Entra ID + Cloudflare Access over Both OIDC and SAML
Most Zero Trust write-ups stop at "user signs in, user gets access." That's not where these integrations actually break. They break on group members…
Structuring Terraform Projects for Multiple Environments Without Copy-Paste Drift
The first time I had to manage infrastructure across multiple environments, the temptation was to make the setup as simple as possible. One folder f…
Observability as Code: Managing Dashboards and Alerts with Terraform
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…
Decoupling & Securing Web App Storage: Building a Zero-Trust S3 Perimeter with Terraform
When hosting a scalable, multi-AZ 3-tier web application (like WordPress), storing media files locally on the EC2 instances is an architectural dead…
Renaming Terragrunt Projects Without Migrating State
If you've run Terragrunt across more than a handful of modules for a while, you've hit this: you want to reorganize your repo — rename a folder, gro…
Scaling Terraform Infrastructure Beyond a Single Team
When a single engineer manages all the Terraform in an organisation, everything is simple. One repo, one state, one pipeline, one set of credentials…
Managing Terraform Across Multiple Cloud Providers
Most organisations don't live in a single cloud. You might run compute in AWS, DNS in Cloudflare, identity in Azure AD, and logging in GCP. Terrafor…
You Can't Review an Agent. You Can Review a Plan.
A harness for AI-era Terraform. I'm building one. For a while now I've been developing a harness for infrastructure-as-code as a private SDK and com…
Why Snap CD: Non-invasive Orchestration
Most infrastructure CD tools ask you to change the way you write Terraform. Some require a proprietary wrapper CLI. Others impose a specific directo…
Why Snap CD: An Extensive Supporting Toolset
Snap CD ships with a full supporting ecosystem — documentation, a Terraform provider, deployment references, a guided sample, and a migration tool.…
Terraform at Scale: Lessons from Managing 500+ Resources
When Terraform Gets Slow Our Terraform state file grew to 500+ resources. Plans took 8 minutes. Applies timed out. State locking conflicts were dail…