DevOps Director Resources: Books & Communities
Building a DevOps career is about much more than the day job. To be successful, you need to keep learning, improving your skills, and staying up to date with the latest trends and technologies. In this blog, we’ll share our top recommendations for DevOps Director resources, including books, community groups, and cloud governance tools. Fortunately, […]
What is ClickOps, and How Can You Prevent It?
Your DevOps team might be practicing ClickOps without even realizing it causing inefficiencies, misconfigurations, and cost sprawl. Manual, UI-based cloud management processes that bypass Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles—or worse, in the absence of IaC—lack the rigor to manage complex cloud environments. These ClickOps processes slow down deployments, increase errors, create compliance risks, impede scaling, […]
10 Common Terraform Errors & Best Practices to Avoid Them
Terraform Errors are more common than most teams realize. While terraform has become the IaC tool of choice for many organizations. The reality is that Terraform makes it deceptively easy to get started but considerably more challenging to get right. Many teams discover this only after they’ve accumulated significant technical debt. Simple deployments can quickly […]
Using AWS CloudFormation to Cut Cloud Costs
Managing cloud costs effectively is a top priority for businesses using AWS. Without proper governance, infrastructure sprawl and misconfigurations can lead to unexpected expenses. This is where AWS CloudFormation, a powerful Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service, plays a crucial role in cost optimization especially when integrated with cloud cost optimization tools to enhance visibility and […]
Terraform for Azure: A Beginner’s Overview
Terraform, an open-source infrastructure as code software tool developed by HashiCorp, is built with the goal of simplifying the deployment and management of cloud services. Now, it supports almost all the cloud providers, including Azure. The objective of this guide is to give a detailed perspective of Terraform on Azure that brings together the capabilities […]
How to Automate AWS Infrastructure with Terraform (Step-by-Step)
This guide helps DevOps professionals learn how to leverage the Terraform AWS Provider for automating infrastructure with Terraform on AWS to build scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure. By the end of this article, you’ll be able to confidently automate resource provisioning with Terraform on AWS, ensuring your deployments maintain consistency, minimize manual errors, and […]
Complete Guide to Terraform AWS Provider: Best Practices
Terraform is widely used to manage cloud infrastructure as code. It works by using providers, which connect Terraform to different platforms like AWS, Azure, and others. One of the most common providers is the Terraform AWS Provider, which lets you create and manage AWS resources directly from your Terraform files. If you’re running Terraform on […]
Terraform with AWS: 3 Key Benefits for DevOps Teams
Terraform AWS revolutionizes cloud infrastructure management by enabling Infrastructure as Code (IaC), helping DevOps teams automate, scale, and maintain AWS environments effectively. Terraform’s declarative syntax, automation, and state management make it a powerful tool for effective provisioning and AWS environment management. Terraform simplifies AWS infrastructure management by using HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language), which enables automated, […]
How to Become a Cloud Architect
Growth and Opportunities in Senior Cloud Careers If you’re a DevOps professional looking to pursue a fulfilling career, becoming a cloud architect is a great ambition. Skilled cloud professionals are in high demand as businesses spend record sums on the cloud and need cloud architects to deliver a return on their investment. Cloud architect regularly top […]
