Best Practices

Best practices for application deployment and maintenance of cloud infrastructures using IaC, Terraform / OpenTF, Ansible, Kubernetes & AWS.

How to Encrypt Terraform State with OpenTofu

Securing your Infrastructure: Encrypting Terraform State Files with OpenTofu

How to Share Infrastructure in Multiple Terraform Projects?

Sharing infrastructure across multiple Terraform projects using Data Sources helps maintain consistency, reduce redundancy, and promote collaboration. Terraform Data Sources allow you to fetch and use external information within your configuration.

AWS OpenTofu Terraform

AWS Security Groups' Best Practices

AWS Security Groups are virtual firewalls that control inbound and outbound traffic to and from Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, such as EC2 and RDS instances.

AWS Security

AWS and Terraform Naming Best Practices

Terraform and AWS resource naming should follow a company standard. Each company has different requirements and the standard should be adjusted.

AWS OpenTofu Terraform

Ansible Multiple Environment Best Practices

Handling multiple infrastructure environments with Ansible by targeting the environment tag that included in the mandatory AWS Tags

Ansible

Ansible Roles Best Practices

Ansible Roles Granularity We recommend building Ansible roles that are highly reusable by configuration, but we also recommend pragmatism as our highest priority. Roles for systems and applications designed to be standalone, or before the Cloud was around, are called "non-native cloud applications", often those are stateful applications that can not be clustered without sharing […]