TCH LY Lydiah Mastering Zero-Downtime Deployments with Terraform The first time you run terraform apply on a production system and watch your application go offline, you learn very quickly that…
TCH LY Lydiah I Built Kubernetes From Scratch on AWS (and It Broke… a Lot) I’ve used Kubernetes before. You spin up a cluster, deploy an app, and everything just works. But here’s the thing, I didn’t actually…
TCH LY Lydiah From Virtual Machines to Containers: My Experience Containerizing PHP Apps with Docker, Jenkins… For the first ten projects of my StegHub DevOps apprenticeship, every application I deployed lived on an EC2 instance. Spin up a server…
TCH GEN LY Lydiah Deploying Multi-Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform Modules One of the first things you run into when building real infrastructure with Terraform is that resources do not all live in the same place…
TCH LY Lydiah Getting Started with Multiple Providers in Terraform When I started working with Terraform, I thought of providers as something you just dropped into a configuration and forgot about. You…
TCH SPT LY Lydiah Managing High Traffic Applications with AWS Elastic Load Balancer and Terraform If you have been following along with this series, by Day 4 we had a cluster of EC2 instances running behind a load balancer. Day 5 was…
TCH MDA LY Lydiah Mastering Loops and Conditionals in Terraform Terraform has four tools that stop you from writing the same resource block twice: count, for_each, for expressions, and the ternary…
TCH LY Lydiah Building Reusable Infrastructure with Terraform Modules If you have been writing Terraform for more than a few days, you have probably noticed something: you keep writing the same things. The…
TCH LY Lydiah Building EKS with Terraform: Two Errors Worth Understanding I spent this week building a Kubernetes cluster on AWS, then deploying Jenkins (a CI/CD tool) onto it, then tearing the whole thing down…