How to create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules
Update: I took this blog post series, expanded it, and turned it into a book called Terraform: Up & Running!
How to manage Terraform state
Update: I took this blog post series, expanded it, and turned it into a book called Terraform: Up & Running!
An Introduction to Terraform
Update: I took this blog post series, expanded it, and turned it into a book called Terraform: Up & Running!
Why we use Terraform and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation
Update: I took this blog post series, expanded it, and turned it into a book called Terraform: Up & Running!
A Comprehensive Guide to Terraform
Update: I took this blog post series, expanded it, and turned it into a book called Terraform: Up & Running!
Gruntwork Infrastructure Packages: world-class infrastructure, all of the control, none of the work
An Infrastructure Package is a reusable, battle-tested, documented, configurable, best-practices definition of a piece of infrastructure. We think it’s a better w...
From Italy to Ireland
Last year was a bit crazy. I published a book; I started a company; Molly and I sold everything we owned and did a cross-country road trip, with stops at the Bonn...
Why the Best Companies and Developers Give Away Almost Everything They Do
Why do so many software companies and developers give away so much of their work in the form of open source, writing, and speaking? Why would they invest thousand...
Introducing Gruntwork: get up and running on AWS with DevOps best practices and world-class infrastructure in about 2 weeks
Building infrastructure for a software company is much harder than it should be. There are so many moving parts and so many concepts to learn. How do I build my c...
Infrastructure as code: running microservices on AWS using Docker, Terraform, and ECS
Docker and Amazon ECS are a powerful combination. In previous posts, I showed how to use Docker to package your code and how to manually deploy Docker containers ...