• Packer Virtualbox builder, from json to hcl

    Packer is a free and open source tool to create golden machine images for various platforms and operating systems using single source configuration. I have been using packer to solve quite few interesting problems, from hardening Linux servers, create AWS EC2 ami’s with encrypted boot volume in order to achieve... [Read More]
  • Terraform cloud remote state demystified.

    A bit of history….. Since I started to use terraform back in 2015 (good old days), the state management has been quite painful for individuals and teams. The biggest concerns about state management were state corruption, state leak (usually trough a git public repo) and state deletion, unintentional or intentional.... [Read More]