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10 Essential DevOps Tools You Should Learn in 2024

10 Essential DevOps Tools You Should Learn in 2024

The DevOps landscape is constantly evolving, with new tools and technologies emerging at a rapid pace. If you visit the DevOps roadmap on roadmap.sh, a popular site that provides developer roadmaps, you'll come across a diagram outlining the tools and technologies used in DevOps. The sheer number

Ansible vs Terraform

Ansible vs Terraform

Both Ansible and Terraform are powerful utilities for infrastructure automation. Ansible stands out in configuration management, application deployment, and general-purpose automation. Terraform, on the other hand, is particularly good in infrastructure provisioning using the IaC methodology.

An Easy Guide to Install Terraform on Windows

An Easy Guide to Install Terraform on Windows

With Terraform, you can now define, deploy, and manage your infrastructure efficiently.

Introduction to DevOps Tools: From Idea to Execution

Introduction to DevOps Tools: From Idea to Execution

Welcome to the world of DevOps, where a plethora of tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Prometheus, and Grafana play pivotal roles. For anyone new to this domain, the sheer number of tools and technologies can be overwhelming. This blog aims to demystify these tools by narrating

Introduction to Terraform

Introduction to Terraform: A Beginner's Guide

With Terraform, you're stepping into a realm where everything from servers to databases is managed with code – neat, efficient, and super scalable.

Terraform Modules - Tutorials and Examples

Terraform Modules - Tutorials and Examples

Explore the power and flexibility of Terraform modules in infrastructure as code (IaC). Learn how modules enhance reusability, abstraction, and scalability in managing cloud resources, complete with practical examples for AWS and Google Cloud.

Terraform vs. CloudFormation: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Terraform vs. CloudFormation: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has emerged as a critical tenet in cloud computing, making efficient resource management possible across cloud environments. Terraform and AWS CloudFormation are two leading tools in IaC that facilitate the provisioning and management of infrastructure resources. While both offer similar functionalities, their fundamental differences make each

Terraform Input and Output Variables Explained

Terraform Input and Output Variables Explained

Terraform's input and output variables are powerful tools that enable developers to build flexible infrastructure configurations with Terraform.

Terraform Variables: Types & Use Cases for Beginners

Terraform Variables: Types & Use Cases for Beginners

A variable is a container that holds a value. It can be used to represent different values at different times during the execution of a program. They can be assigned a value, which can then be changed or used in execution. A variable in Terraform is similar to a variable

Terraform for_each: A simple tutorial with Examples

Terraform for_each: A simple Tutorial with Examples

Congratulations! You recently joined an SRE team that uses Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure components. After some time, you notice that they configured a couple of similar infrastructure resources using the count meta-argument as seen in the code snippet below: # variables.tf variable "ami" { type = string default

Infrastructure-as-Code

What is Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)?

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a concept that has revolutionized the way IT infrastructure is managed and deployed. By using IaC, infrastructure is treated like a software application where its attributes are written through code. In this article, we will discuss IaC, what it is, and how it can help

What Is GitOps? Deployment Strategies & Advantages Explained.

What Is GitOps? Deployment Strategies & Advantages Explained

GitOps is a term that has been around for a while but has recently gained popularity in the DevOps and software engineering communities. GitOps takes DevOps' best practices, such as collaboration, version control, and compliance, and applies them to infrastructure automation. So, let's start by understanding DevOps.

DevOps Certifications

Docker certification

Top 5 DevOps Certifications in 2023

Most companies rely on certifications to determine if an individual has the skills necessary to undertake specific responsibilities. Most IT industry professionals rely on certifications to attest to their expertise in using specific tools or platforms. In this article, I'll share the top 5 most marketable DevOps certifications

Why Should You Learn HashiCorp Terraform?

Why Should You Learn HashiCorp Terraform?

Software applications run on top of infrastructure. This includes things like servers, databases, storage, networking, and other infrastructure components. Imagine you are an employee tasked with setting up a new web server for your company's website. Let’s consider a manual infrastructure provisioning scenario. You would have to

Top Skills Required in DevOps

DevOps Essential Skills

14 Top Skills Required for DevOps in 2024

In rich countries, the average salary of a skilled DevOps engineer is well over $100.000/year. Why are companies willing to pay so much? First of all, these employees bring a lot of value to these companies - they help them deliver higher quality software faster and sometimes at

Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as code

Configuration Management vs. Orchestration

Modern software development puts a lot of emphasis on automation, collaboration, repeatability, and rapid iteration. Two important concepts that make these objectives attainable are configuration management and orchestration. While they are related, they are not the same thing. In this article, we’ll look at what these two concepts entail