Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
A practical look at Spacelift, env0, Atlantis, and Scalr for teams outgrowing HCP Terraform on price, policy, or OpenTofu support.
Terraform provisions infrastructure and Ansible configures machines, so pitting them against each other is the wrong question to ask.
A practitioner's comparison of Terraform and CloudFormation on AWS covering state, drift, new-service lag, rollback, and where CDK fits.
Terraform's declarative HCL and Pulumi's real programming languages solve the same problem in very different ways, and the right pick depends on your team.
HashiCorp relicensed Terraform and a community fork spun up overnight. Here's how OpenTofu actually differs and which one your team should run.
We inherited 200-odd AWS resources built by hand over four years, with no state file anywhere. Here's how import blocks and a generation workflow got them under Terraform without a rebuild.
State drift is silent until a deploy fails or an outage reveals it. The scheduled plan-and-diff pipeline that surfaces console hotfixes and manual edits while they're still cheap to reconcile.
Version-pinned modules across many repos. The release process, semver discipline, and the breaking-change communication that keeps a shared registry sane.
Provision real cloud resources with Terraform — a VPC, an S3 bucket, and an EC2 instance — using the standard init/plan/apply workflow.
We ran Pulumi in TypeScript and Terraform in HCL side by side across 60+ services. Each won different categories of work. Here's the breakdown.
We deleted every static GCP service account key in our org over six weeks. Here's the migration plan, the gotchas, and the policies we now enforce.
We moved a 60-node production EKS cluster to Auto Mode. Some pain points evaporated, others got harder. The cost picture is more nuanced than the marketing suggests.
