Infrastructure-as-Code on its own is made to make our lives easier by automating repetitive tasks. Creating a simple infrastructure using Terraform can be relatively easy, but what about our more complex/modular needs? How can we keep the level of automation IaC tools give us, but make it modular?

The world of Infrastructure as Code is beautiful. Creating temporary architectures and easily scaling them up/down/in/out is what makes it as powerful as it is. Let's see how tools like Terraform and Ansible can work together to create fully automated infrastructure.

For one of the courses I follow, I had to deploy an AWS Lambda function with an HTTP API gateway using Terraform. After a few hours of trial and error, searching the web and drinking coffee, I finally came to a working solution.

In my previous blog post I talked about how I built my very own DIY server rack. It’s time to fill that rack with some equipment so I can put it to good use. Follow along to see what I put in my rack and what my plans are with it.

Because of COVID-19, I’ve been working (studying) from home the past few months. Experiencing a couple of issues with VPNs made me realize that a homelab is a useful thing to have, so I decided to do some upgrades. In this part I’ll talk about how I built my own rack from scratch.

Clicking the same buttons over and over again can be a little.. exhausting(?). It often feels like you can do something much more useful with your time. Well, using Ansible combined with a VM Template, you can easily automate the creation of a VM.

As a 19-year-old Security, Systems & Services student, getting hands-on experience with servers while I'm not on campus helps me get some experience. Having some servers at home was the ultimate start of this project.