Journey of an IT Architect
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Debating between count and for_each in Terraform
ReadIn Terraform, we often have to create an array of resources of the same type but similar attribute values. For code reusability, manageability and for…
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Test Open ID Connect Flows Locally
ReadEarlier this year, I had to integrate an application with an identity provider. Both claim to be compliant with Open ID Connect. But when they…
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IAM Roles for any workload
ReadBackground A few month back a client of mine wanted to use GitLab pipeline to deploy infrastructure on AWS with Terraform. The key question is…
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Managing EC2 instances across accounts with Ansible
ReadI regard AWS Systems Manager as omnipotent. Nonetheless, there are a few reasons that makes Ansible still a prevalent VM (EC2) management tool over Systems…
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Public Key Infrastructure 3 of 3 – PKI Implementation
ReadAfter the last two post, now we can focus on PKI implementation. The use case is software testing, where we need to create and recycle…
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Public Key Infrastructure 2 of 3 – Certificate Automation
ReadFollowing the last post on PKI, we’ll discuss automation of certificate issuance. Two key activities to automate are: validation of the requestor and issuance of…