#spacelift - July 2022

Which Cloud Deployment Model Is Right for Your Business?
What are the cloud deployment models? Learn the pros and cons of each model and take a look at how you can choose the best one for your business.

@Chris Spitzenberger 😇

inital feedback on spacelift from someone using terrafrom since its been like v0.7:
you are doing gods work! really like your approach and am especially happy that you solve my nearly decade old issue of enterprise "inner-source" PR based IaC repos

In the past I had to accept that its a binary decision in regards to security: grant someone branch/pr permissions, including tf plan, or not

Terraform Tutorial – Getting Started With Terraform on AWS
In this step by step tutorial, you will learn how to use Terraform and get hands-on experience in managing cloud infrastructure with IaC.

Practice DRY in Terraform Configurations Using Dynamic Blocks
Learn what Terraform Dynamic Blocks are, what are their components and how to use them for applying the DRY principle.

Terraform Providers Overview – How To Use Them & Examples
Why do you need Terraform Providers? Learn how they can be used and referenced. Take look at some of the available providers with examples.

What Is a Kubernetes Cluster? Key Components Explained
Learn the foundation of K8s operations. Take a look at the components of the master node and worker nodes that make up a Kubernetes Cluster.

good content on the blog btw

Today, my devs did their first fully-unassisted app deployment to production. Over the past 2.5 years, we've trained toward GitOps and, step-by-step, turned over the automation to the devs. First, we got them comfortable with creating PRs with their version bumps, then we introduced them to Spacelift, teaching them how to navigate plans and use the Spacelift Github integration checks to validate the deploys as well as introducing them to TF plans, now available to them in SL. And today, one of our leads handled the whole process w/out DevOps intervention.

Spacelift completed the circuit, by giving us a consistent and independent run environment, and a UI that makes the whole TF layer accessible to all users, putting the icing on the cake.

Many, if not most, organizations operate as polyglots - polyglot environments, polyglot programming languages, polyglot persistence, and so on.  Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) automation is no exception to this complexity with organizations often supporting polyglot IaC CICD tooling. Teams introduce this variability to achieve specific ends as some frameworks are great for one task but not another, so working with multiple platforms/frameworks enables developers to use the right tool for the job.
 
In this podcast episode, Satbir Sran and Darren Boyd speak with Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Spacelift, Marcin Wyszynski. Together they discuss how Spacelift can cull the digital Tower of Babel that comes with deploying and managing IaC in the enterprise. 

https://www.ink8r.com/episode14

Ansible Modules – How To Use Them Efficiently (Examples)
Modules are one of the core building blocks of Ansible. Learn how to build them and best practices. Explore some of the most used and helpful modules,