Configuration Management & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform is as common as CI/CD pipelines and incident response playbooks. However, there are moments when you don’t want Terraform to touch everything. Maybe you need to quickly redeploy an Azure Function App, or perhaps a specific Storage Account needs an urgent configuration change without disturbing unrelated resources. The […] The article Applying Terraform Changes to Specific Resources using the -target Argument was originally published on Build5Nines. To stay up-to-date, Subscribe to the Build5Nines Newsletter. View the full article

Today, we are announcing Terraform support for AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS). Customers can now use Terraform to create and manage their PCS clusters. PCS makes it easier to run and scale high performance computing (HPC) workloads and build scientific and engineering models on AWS using Slurm. PCS already supports managing your HPC environments through the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS CloudFormation, and AWS APIs. With this release, customers can now define and deploy their PCS infrastructure using the HashiCorp Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, and manage clusters through their existing Terraform workflows. This integr…

The total cost of unplanned outages has been rising exponentially each year. A 2016 study conducted by the Ponemon Institute stated that the mean total cost per minute of an unplanned outage was $8,851, a 32% increase since 2013, and a 81% increase since 2010. A 2022 study by EMA Research says that number is up to $12,900. These metrics showcase how crucial it is for organizations to have a solid and well-thought disaster recovery strategy in place in order to reduce downtime and data loss as much as possible once disaster strikes. Ensuring business continuity and safeguarding mission-critical systems against unexpected failures can be time-consuming, expensive, and diffi…

I has a scenario where I needed to configure an Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server to use Entra ID (Azure AD) authentication and add the Entra user running the HashiCorp Terraform deployment as the Azure PostgreSQL Administrator using the azurerm_postgresql_flexible_server_active_directory_administrator Terraform resource. Generally, you would use the azuread_user data resource in Terraform to get the Entra […] The article Terraform: Get User Principal Name (UPN) of User Running Deployment without Entra ID Read Permissions was originally published on Build5Nines. To stay up-to-date, Subscribe to the Build5Nines Newsletter. View the full article