Platform Engineering Labs has released formae, an open-source infrastructure-as-code platform designed to address limitations in existing tools, focusing on automatic discovery, codification of existing infrastructure, and a reconcile/patch workflow. It uses PKL instead of HCL and targets reducing drift and complexity.
Plural is bringing AI into the DevOps lifecycle with a new release that leverages a unified GitOps platform as a RAG engine. This provides AI-powered troubleshooting, natural language infrastructure querying, autonomous upgrade assistance, and agentic workflows for infrastructure modification, all with enterprise-grade guardrails.
The article discusses 5 self-hosted services (NetBox, Harvester, Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes) that the author finds useful in their home lab despite being potentially overkill for typical setups. It details the benefits and use cases for each service, highlighting how they enhance the author's tinkering and learning experience.
Despite the great value Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools have brought, DevOps teams are facing frustration due to tool fragmentation, integration hassles, and configuration nightmares. Emerging practices like Infrastructure from Code are being explored as potential solutions.
An in-depth exploration of using Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate Terraform code for infrastructure as code (IaC), analyzing the capabilities and limitations of LLMs in this domain.
All models struggled with:
- Variable usage (hardcoded values)
- IAM configuration (permissions)
- Security group management
- Target group configuration
While LLMs are promising for IaC, they can be helpful tools for developers.
All models struggled with:
- Variable usage (hardcoded values)
- IAM configuration (permissions)
- Security group management
- Target group configuration
While LLMs are promising for IaC, they can be helpful tools for developers.
This blog post compares Ansible and Terraform, two popular tools in the DevOps world, and discusses how they can be used together for a more efficient and comprehensive approach to infrastructure management. It also includes a video walk-through and requirements for a demo example where Terraform and Ansible are combined to create an AWS EC2 instance and deploy a Docker engine on it with Ansible, followed by launching a Jenkins container.
List 10 real use case where i can use Template template_file of Terrraform
