Best Practices for Cloud Infrastructure Automation

At IT Wonder Lab we share best practices for application deployment and maintenance of cloud infrastructures using IaC, Terraform / OpenTF, Ansible, Kubernetes & AWS.

Latest Cloud Tutorials

Focusing on Terraform, OpenTofu, Kubernetes, AWS, and Ansible. 
How to Encrypt Terraform State with OpenTofu
Securing your Infrastructure: Encrypting Terraform State Files with OpenTofu
AWS with Terraform Tutorial: AWS Route 53 (DNS) (14)
Using the Terraform aws_route53_delegation_set, aws_route53_zone, and aws_route53_record resource blocks to configure DNS in AWS.
AWS with Terraform Tutorial: AWS RDS Instances (13)
Using the Terraform aws_db_instance resource block to configure, launch, and secure RDS instances.
AWS with Terraform Tutorial: AWS EC2 Instances (12)
How to use the Terraform aws_instance resource block to configure, launch, and secure EC2 instances.
AWS with Terraform Tutorial: AWS AMIs (11)
How to configure and use the Terraform aws_ami data source block to find and use AWS AMIs as templates (root volume snapshot with operating system and applications) for EC2 instances.

Latest Best Practices

Cloud best practices around security, cost optimization, scalability, and efficient resource management.
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 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 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.
Ansible Multiple Environment Best Practices
Handling multiple infrastructure environments with Ansible by targeting the environment tag that included in the mandatory AWS Tags
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