Automation

Intro I’ve been fooling around with pulumi for a bit now, and thought I would write about it here. What is it? Pulumi is an infrastructure as code framework with a twist. You can use any language you like in order to write your code (within reason). The pulumi tagline is Your cloud. Your language. Your way. I’m here to say it’s true! Why is it cool? Pulumi is super cool because it means as a developer I can write infrastructure as code for my cloud based infrastructure in a language I am comfortable with....

Intro I’ve been doing a lot with terraform lately, and I’ve been looking for ways to make my terraform configurations a lot simpler and have less repetition. Like a lot of people, I’ve found myself repeating the same code over and over. An example is where I repeat the same resource over and over but with different configuration parameters. It’s essentially the same resource. Why should I do this? There has to be a better way....