The IT Automation Blog - page 14
DRY: Don't repeat yourself. Use Ansible blocks
16 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
A very common principle in software development is to not repeat yourself. This principle is not limited to software development only. We should apply this to our whole life. Life means to be creative and we can only be creative if we do not repeat the same patterns over and over again. In Ansible it is incredibly easy to avoid repetition by using use the block clause.
...Move items between terraform states
15 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
Terraform states can become rather complex if all our .tf files live in the same directory. We can avoid that if we reorganize our code in separate folders.
...Ansible or Terraform? Both!
14 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
Terraform and Ansible are the most popular IT Automation Tools and probably every DevOps engineer is using either of them. But many of them are asking themselves: “I am using Ansible and it serves me well. Why should I bother to learn Terraform?” Or the other way around: “I am familar with Terraform, I do not need other tools!”. This Article will show why this might not be the best approach to look at things.
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