Infrastructure as Code

The Basics of Infrastructure as Code: A Primer for DevOps
IaC changes the way IT operations and development teams collaborate to create, provision and manage infrastructure and applications. This short introduction explains its benefits ...

Mind the Shift: Answering Common Questions About OpenTofu
A lead contributor to OpenTofu answers the (truly) frequently asked questions about the open source project ...

What OpenTofu 1.7 Means for DevSecOps
With built-in end-to-end encryption, OpenTofu is a natural DevSecOps fit ...

The Problems With Golden Templates That No One Wants to Talk About
Golden templates make it easier to get started with IaC, but they don’t effectively fit users’ needs. Let’s fix that ...

IBM Confirms: It’s Buying HashiCorp
Everyone knew HashiCorp was attempting to find a buyer. Few suspected it would be IBM ...

OpenTofu Denies Hashicorp’s Code-Stealing Accusations
The legal battle between the faux-open-source HashiCorp and the open source OpenTofu heats up ...

Hashicorp Versus OpenTofu Gets Ugly
Hashicorp is accusing the open source OpenTofu Project of swiping some of its BSL-licensed Terraform code. Enter the lawyers ...

The IaC Weight on DevOps’ Shoulders
It’s often challenging to adopt modern DevOps practices around infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Here's how to make the journey smoother ...

Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability ...

Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer ...

Meta Mayhem: Hybrid Work FAIL ¦ Yet More Layoffs
In this week’s #TheLongView: Meta’s enforced hybrid work plan is failing badly, and Meta makes more layoffs ...

Raspberry Pi 5: Faster, Better, Stronger — Spendier
In an extra #TheLongView: Everyone’s favorite single-board ARM computer, the Raspberry Pi, has a new generation coming soon ...