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opened on May 3, 2018

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I don't think it is possible to have a "dev ops" environment without some kind of Configuration Management Tool.
They make it possible to configure an environment through scripts.
The big advantage of a tool like this is that new virtual machine or container instances can be easily created or updated.
The most common solutions here I think are Ansible, Puppet, Chef and Salt.

It is probably best to pick one tool and have practical scripting exercises how to an enviroment can be configured programmatically.

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  1. monperrus commented on May 4, 2018

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on May 4, 2018
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    Hi Göran,

    Thanks for your suggestion.

    Among Ansible, Puppet, Chef and Salt, what's the one with the best documentation, in particular getting started and tutorials pages to your opinion?

  2. monperrus
    changed the title [-]Configuration Management Tools[/-] [+]Configuration Management Tools (eg ansible)[/+] on Aug 20, 2018

  3. monperrus commented on Aug 27, 2018

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Aug 27, 2018
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    Terminology: infrastructure as code (IaC) #22

  4. monperrus commented on Aug 27, 2018

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Aug 27, 2018
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    Reading material:
    GitOps: A Path to More Self-Service IT
    https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/9/230599-gitops/fulltext

    "Use Cases for GitOps. DNS is an obvious place to start, as are VM creation, container maintenance and orchestration, firewall rules, website updates, blog posts, email aliases and mailing lists, and just about any virtual infrastructure or one with a configuration file or API."

  5. MatsJonsson commented on Oct 11, 2018

    @MatsJonsson
    MatsJonsson
    on Oct 11, 2018

    We've done this with Ansible and Salt in a couple of big projects, only to end up with huge amounts of stuff just to get the actual stuff working.

    Terraform

    The move to Terraform and Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) made life a lot easier https://www.terraform.io/.

  6. bittermandel commented on Oct 18, 2018

    @bittermandel
    bittermandel
    on Oct 18, 2018

    We're running Salt extensively on thousands of nodes. It's working great for us and gives us great power in controlling our "standard" environments

    https://saltproject.io/

  7. alanmcg commented on Nov 6, 2018

    @alanmcg
    alanmcg
    on Nov 6, 2018

    I have seen this implemented with puppet, both badly and very well, in different organisations.

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  9. monperrus commented on May 15, 2019

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on May 15, 2019
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    How good is your puppet? an empirically defined and validated quality model for puppet
    https://pure.tudelft.nl/portal/files/37386939/how_good_is_your_puppet.pdf

  10. bbaudry commented on May 20, 2019

    @bbaudry
    bbaudry
    on May 20, 2019
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    Molecule is a tool for testing ansible scripts
    https://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#

  11. monperrus commented on May 23, 2019

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on May 23, 2019
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    Using Testinfra with Ansible to verify server state
    https://opensource.com/article/19/5/using-testinfra-ansible-verify-server-state

  12. monperrus commented on Oct 31, 2019

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Oct 31, 2019
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    Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions
    https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere

  13. monperrus commented on Oct 31, 2019

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Oct 31, 2019
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    Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code
    https://www.pulumi.com/

  14. monperrus
    changed the title [-]Configuration Management Tools (eg ansible)[/-] [+]Configuration Management Tools / Infrastructure as code[/+] on Nov 4, 2019

  15. bbaudry commented on Jun 2, 2020

    @bbaudry
    bbaudry
    on Jun 2, 2020
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    The 'as Code' Activities: Development Anti-patterns for Infrastructure as Code
    http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00177

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  17. monperrus commented on Apr 2, 2023

    @monperrus
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    on Apr 2, 2023
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    Mars is an infrastructure-as-code tool for Ethereum
    https://github.com/TrueFiEng/Mars

  18. monperrus commented on Apr 3, 2023

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Apr 3, 2023
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    CircleCI orbs: package management ecosystem for CircleCI configuration
    https://circleci.com/docs/orb-intro/

  19. bbaudry commented on Apr 17, 2023

    @bbaudry
    bbaudry
    on Apr 17, 2023
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    Vulnerability Scanner for Containers and other Artifacts with trivy

  20. bbaudry commented on Apr 19, 2023

    @bbaudry
    bbaudry
    on Apr 19, 2023
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    Mining for Cost Awareness in the Infrastructure as Code Artifacts of Cloud-based Applications: an Exploratory Study.
    http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07531

  21. monperrus commented on Apr 28, 2023

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Apr 28, 2023
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    Testing idempotence for infrastructure as code
    https://dsg.tuwien.ac.at/team/hummer/docs/2013-middleware-iac.pdf

  22. monperrus commented on Apr 28, 2023

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Apr 28, 2023
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    werf: CD and gitops for Kubernetes
    https://werf.io/

    tutorial by https://killercoda.com/jarns-zeiher/scenario/Simple-End-to-End-GitOps-with-Werf

  23. monperrus commented on May 5, 2023

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on May 5, 2023
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    Automated Code generation for Information Technology Tasks in YAML through Large Language Models. (arXiv:2305.02783v1 [cs.SE])

  24. monperrus commented on Sep 22, 2023

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Sep 22, 2023
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    OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure.
    https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu

  25. monperrus commented on Oct 10, 2023

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Oct 10, 2023
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    Infrastructure-as-Code Ecosystems
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-36060-2_9

  26. monperrus commented on Nov 19, 2023

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Nov 19, 2023
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    Starlark (formerly known as Skylark) is a language intended for use as a configuration language. It was designed for the Bazel build system, but may be useful for other projects as well.
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark

    Heavily used in the tensorflow repo

  27. monperrus commented on Nov 30, 2023

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Nov 30, 2023
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    Rego is a general-purpose policy language, which means that it works for any layer of the stack and any domain. The primary purpose of Rego is to accept JSON/YAML inputs and data that are evaluated to make policy-enabled decisions about infrastructure resources, identities, and operations.

    https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/saas-multitenant-api-access-authorization/rego.html

  28. monperrus commented on Jan 19, 2024

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Jan 19, 2024
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    Crossplane is a framework for building cloud native control planes without needing to write code.
    https://www.crossplane.io/

  29. bbaudry commented on Jul 2, 2024

    @bbaudry
    bbaudry
    on Jul 2, 2024
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    qq, a query language that supports the main formats for config files
    https://github.com/JFryy/qq

  30. monperrus commented on Aug 21, 2024

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Aug 21, 2024
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    Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources
    https://github.com/Azure/bicep

  31. monperrus commented on Nov 22, 2024

    @monperrus
    monperrus
    on Nov 22, 2024
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    Otterdog is a tool to manage GitHub organizations at scale using an infrastructure as code approach.
    https://otterdog.readthedocs.io/

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