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Infrastructure as Code: Imperative vs Declarative

Posted by Mike Brooks on December 27th, 2018.

There are many good articles available that discuss in depth the difference between imperative and declarative style programming. Here I'm going to take a look at a very narrow subset of this debate, that of Infrastructure as Code, (Iac), and hopefully show of…

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When was the last time you deleted your infrastructure?

Posted by Mike Brooks on November 9th, 2018.

This is a question that every team should be asking themselves. There is no correct answer, but you should understand why it is an important question and how the answer affects your team.…

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Deploying AWS Elastic Beanstalk applications with Terraform

Posted by OVO TECH on August 30th, 2016.

To facilitate our migration from EC2/Chef environments to Docker/ElasticBeanstalk, we wanted to automate provisioning of an AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB) environment and reuse it to build other environments. This article discussed how we achieved this infrastruct…