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Automating Cloud Infrastructure Deployment with Terraform and Ansible: A Comprehensive Guide

The right tools can manage cloud resources, configure servers and deploy apps automatically using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
The article uses Terraform and Ansible to provision cloud infrastructure, deploy app and monitoring stacks, and configure everything automatically.
The project involves designing and provisioning cloud infrastructure using Terraform, and using it to trigger Ansible playbooks for deploying application and monitoring stacks.
Key elements of the architecture include a VPC that hosts application stack (frontend, backend, and reverse proxy) along with Prometheus, Grafana, and other monitoring tools.
The article provides example codes in Dockerfile for frontend and backend images, Terraform config for provisioning AWS EC2 instance, and Ansible playbook for setting up environment and running apps.
Once the deployment is complete, one can run 'terraform apply' on the terminal, and the application can be accessed via the public IP provided by Terraform, whereas the monitoring stack (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.) will be up.
This guide helps us learn how to build and push Docker images, write Terraform configurations to provision cloud resources, use Ansible to configure servers and deploy apps, and set up monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and other tools.
Ultimately, Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management can ensure scalable and automated deployments in complex environments, making it an essential skill for cloud automation specialists.
The project demonstrates how using Terraform and Ansible together may help to ensure repeatable and consistent deployments with an added layer of monitoring.
The project can be extended to varying degrees to suit different environments, and it is an invaluable skill for DevOps engineers and cloud automation specialists.

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Bulk Delete Messages with MEE6 Discord Bot

MEE6 is a popular Discord bot that allows users to bulk delete messages.
To use MEE6, add it to your Discord server and grant necessary permissions.
Create a role for MEE6 with 'Manage Messages' permission, and use the '!clear' command followed by the number of messages to delete.
MEE6 can only delete messages less than 14 days old due to Discord API limitations.

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Microsoft DevLabs Extensions

The Microsoft DevLabs publisher was created as a hub for internal teams at Microsoft to channel their passion for Azure DevOps into experimental extensions.
Over time, many extensions became outdated, leading to unresolved issues, outdated dependencies, and customer frustration.
To restore the value of the Microsoft DevLabs publisher, a review was conducted to identify actively maintained extensions and deprecated ones.
Several extensions are now actively maintained, while others have been deprecated and will no longer be updated.

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🚀 A Beginner's Guide to Docker: Simplifying Development and Deployment

Docker is an open-source platform that allows you to package applications and their dependencies into containers.
Key concepts of Docker include images, containers, Dockerfile, and Docker Hub.
To get started, install Docker Desktop, run your first container, and build your first Docker image.
Handy Docker commands include listing running containers, stopping/removing containers, and removing images.

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DIY Kubernetes Is a Recipe for Mayhem

Kubernetes is a highly popular open source project to deploy and manage modern container-based applications at scale.
Kubernetes’ open source community has developed many cloud native tools for reducing the complexity of Kubernetes implementation.
Many users run Kubernetes ineffectively as they are unaware of the ecosystem related to Kubernetes, which includes observability, logging, networking, security, storage, IAM, etc.
Many users opt for a Kubernetes solution from significant clouds like Amazon EKS or Microsoft AKS to avoid difficulties, requiring the implementation of Kubernetes properly, leading to lock-ins and a high total bill of cost.
Organizations that go the open-source route and manage everything themselves often experience balkanization, resulting in thousands of different implementations lacking interoperability.
Enterprises require a centralized cloud-native engineering team to consolidate their Kubernetes implementations without widespread balkanization.
The team should decide on a standard cloud native stack and provide push-button deployment and automated maintenance to establish consistency across public and private cloud platforms.
The team can gradually migrate existing Kubernetes applications to the new, canonical stack and invite those developers who have already gained expertise about the cloud native world to contribute or join the centralized cloud native engineering team.
Enterprises need to employ a strategic, centralized approach to Kubernetes to bring together scattered Kubernetes implementations and restore the efficiency/agility the implementation had initially promised.
Kubernetes becomes entangled with the applications that run on it without consolidated Kubernetes management, putting the Kubernetes implementation at risk.

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HashiCorp at re:Invent 2024: Infrastructure Lifecycle Management with AWS

HashiCorp's presence at AWS re:Invent shows how they help organizations provision, secure, run, and connect applications within AWS
The HashiCorp Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) with AWS enables organizations to build, deploy and manage infrastructure lifecycle with efficiency
Highlights include the 3 billion downloads of the Terraform AWS provider which underscores the role Terraform plays in empowering application teams to compose, reuse, and collaborate effectively on infrastructure provisioning
AWS Cloud Control provider launch has enabled quicker support of new services to HashiCorp Terraform and makes resource coverage more efficient.
Pre-written Sentinel polices for AWS to simplify governance with out-of-the-box policy enforcement and accelerate the time to value for customers looking to address cloud governance at scale.
Provider-defined functions to parse and build Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) within the AWS providers and extend the capabilities of Terraform.
Terraform Stacks public beta to optimize the coordination, deployment, and lifecycle management of interdependent Terraform configurations.
AppFabric support for Terraform expands AWS AppFabric supported applications used across an organization.
OIDC federation for HCP Terraform's dynamic provider credentials allow Terraform runs to assume an IAM role through native OpenID Connect (OIDC) integration.

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Bringing Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes to life with Palette

AWS has released EKS Hybrid Nodes, which allows customers to leverage on-premises and edge infrastructure as worker nodes in EKS clusters.
Hybrid nodes are bare metal and/or virtualized hosts running outside of AWS that register with a centralized EKS control plane as worker nodes, resulting in a single EKS cluster that spans the Amazon cloud and one or more private locations.
Hybrid architectures offer an efficient pathway to cloud bursting, where on-premises applications temporarily scale to the cloud.
Managing Kubernetes across different environments traditionally requires separate clusters and toolsets. Hybrid architectures enable a consistent security model across both on-premises and cloud environments.
Multiple edge sites can be registered with a single control plane. AWS hosts and manages the Kubernetes control plane.
Hybrid clusters improve DR capabilities and provide advanced mobility for workloads.
To fully understand hybrid clusters, their configuration, and capabilities, network topology of each hybrid site is required prior to deployment.
For solutions using a VPN architecture, it is recommended to have a dedicated VPN server per hybrid node pool.
AWS provides a CLI tool to enable hybrid node lifecycle operations such as installation, configuration, registration, and upgrades.
Palette can augment and extend the core Hybrid Nodes feature by automating the infrastructure lifecycle and orchestrating lifecycle management of hybrid nodes at scale.

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Streamlining Microservices Testing With Platform Engineering

Standardizing testing processes is critical for improving engineering efficiency, reducing costs and increasing system reliability in the microservices domain of software engineering.
Nonstandard testing practices can lead to redundancies, increased maintenance costs, and expensive production issues, which can potentially affect revenue.
Platform engineering teams can collaborate with quality assurance teams to develop internal tools that standardize technical testing processes and provide self-service capabilities to developers.
Standardization can be achieved by consolidating multiple test environments, establishing early previews of code changes, and implementing shift-left automated testing.
The strategic areas of standardization discussed are integral to elevating the overall effectiveness and efficiency of platform engineering functions.
The key guiding principles to ensure effective testing efforts are outcome over output, value-driven testing, and iterative improvement.
Effective testing strategies align closely with business objectives, ensuring efforts are concentrated, where they deliver the most value.
Signadot helps platform teams to simplify and standardize testing and preview environments and enables a shift-left approach in the development cycle while minimizing infrastructure costs.
Platform engineers at Brex were able to scale developer testing across hundreds of engineers without duplicating infrastructure, and Earnest empowered its developers to conduct early testing in production-like environments, catching issues sooner and reducing costs.
Standardizing testing practices and processes with the help of platform engineering can enhance both efficiency and effectiveness in the development processes.

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Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) with custom domain name

To configure Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) with a custom domain name:
1. Provision TLS Certificates using Cert-Manager.
2. Update DNS Records with the Ingress Controller's external IP.
3. Install ECK and configure Ingress.
4. Deploy an Elasticsearch cluster and a Kibana instance.

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Mastering Amazon Web Services: Tips for Managing Your AWS Email Address

Managing email addresses in AWS is a crucial aspect of maintaining communication efficiency and compliance within your organization.
Amazon SES allows you to lease a dedicated IP address, ensuring that your emails are delivered from a consistent source, which can improve your sender reputation and deliverability rates.
AWS also offers a pay-less-by-using-more feature, which provides volume-based discounts.
Automating the sending of emails, especially for tasks like user verifications, can significantly streamline your business processes.
Setting up a customer contact center with AWS involves leveraging the power of AWS Connect, a service designed to deploy a contact center swiftly and efficiently.
In conclusion, mastering Amazon Web Services for managing your AWS email address involves utilizing services like Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to send and receive emails efficiently and cost-effectively.
SES can be set up for a domain by configuring the necessary DNS settings, verifying the domain ownership, and creating appropriate IAM roles and policies for seamless email management.
The pay-as-you-go pricing model in AWS allows users to pay only for the resources they use, making it a cost-effective option for managing email addresses without incurring unnecessary expenses.
AWS Auto Scaling groups can create application load balancers across multiple availability zones, providing scalability and reliability for managing email addresses effectively with SES.
Amazon EFS can be used to store data across instances in an Auto Scaling group, ensuring data persistence and accessibility for managing email addresses securely and efficiently.

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ScaleOps Adds Predictive Horizontal Scaling, Smart Placement

The Israeli startup ScaleOps has added horizontal scaling and other features to its offering to dynamically allocate container resources at runtime.
Its predictive horizontal pod autoscaling uses AI to forecast application loads to scale in real time.
The company also introduced intelligent pod placement, which optimizes resource allocation by considering application constraints and cluster status.
ScaleOps aims to save organizations 50% in cloud costs and improve application performance with its real-time predictive scaling and intelligent pod placement capabilities.

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How to Thoroughly Cancel All AWS Services: A Step-by-Step Guide

This guide provides a step-by-step process for cancelling all AWS services effectively and securely.
Identify active services with tools such as AWS CLI, AWS Config and CloudWatch.
Understand service interdependencies to prevent disruptions in related systems.
Back up all necessary data to prevent data loss before shutting down instances and deleting resources.
Review AWS billing dashboard, close account, and handle refunds and credits.
Ensure compliance and data security post-cancellation by securing data, certifying data deletion, and maintaining compliance records.
Troubleshoot common issues during cancellation, such as billing discrepancies and termination errors.
Contact AWS Support for assistance.
Maintain a clear data retention policy and regularly audit your AWS services and resources to optimize cloud costs.
Closing an AWS account is an irreversible action; ensure that you have no further need for any AWS services or data.

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Kubernetes CRDs: The Backbone of Kubernetes Extensibility

Kubernetes CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions) empower developers to extend Kubernetes by creating custom resource types.
CRDs allow Kubernetes to recognize and handle custom resources just like its native objects.
CRDs make Kubernetes flexible, enabling the addition of new features, staying declarative, and automating tasks.
CRDs are commonly used in popular Kubernetes tools like Cert-Manager, ArgoCD, and Prometheus Operator.

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The partnership that will prevent vape sales to minors

Johnston Retail Services has partnered with Privately SA to bring the AgeAI app to Ireland, helping to prevent vape sales to minors and avoid the risk of costly fines
Privately's AgeAI app provides automated and highly accurate facial age estimation, removing the guesswork from age checks and mitigating the risk of fines for selling vapes to children
A 2023 study revealed that more than one-third of young people aged 13 to 16 in Ireland currently vape, and almost one-quarter of 10 to 12-year-olds said they had tried vaping
Johnston Retail Services, in partnership with Privately SA, will bring AgeAI to stores in Ireland, providing an automated and efficient solution for age verification during vape purchases

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The Original Disruptor of the Music Industry

The Wu-Tang Clan introduced unbundling into the music industry 6 years earlier in 1993 when Bobby Diggs insisted upon each individual artist retaining the option to sign as independent artists at any other label.
Diggs integrated a key capability of his supplier by mastering the skills necessary for music production and used guerrilla marketing tactics to get his music in front of listeners and create proven demand.
This contract structure was stunning in that it allowed all the artists involved (including himself) to be free agents outside of the group who had the right to negotiate and sign deals with other record companies.
Diggs wanted to control the pricing power and leverage of their key suppliers (the record companies) and retain the “wholesale transfer pricing power” advantage for all the artists within the Wu-Tang umbrella.
The Wu-Tang artists and the music industry as a whole won through the success of the Wu-Tang Clan, which was a pivotal event in creating what has now become the most popular selling genre of music.
The sheer amount of amazing content that was created as a result of a small yet powerful nuance in the original contract of the Wu-Tang Clan leaves but one question: Can it all be so simple?
Diggs’ courage and confidence were on full display when he sacrificed short-term revenue to gain long-term leverage.
In the recent past, cable TV providers bundled all of the individual networks and programs into one simple offering that consumers could buy. In the current world, unbreakable rules and legacy best practices are no longer rock-solid concepts that can be relied upon to deliver business results.
Optionality in financial markets is a concept that has been gaining traction in recent years thanks to the work of Nassim Nicholas Taleb. In the digital business context, optionality can be described as having a choice within your control but not the obligation to pursue it.
The RZA created and retained optionality for the members of The Wu-Tang Clan and also utilized convex and serial optionality to capture immense revenue gains from the marketplace in music, concerts, merchandise, and now streaming video.

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