Cloud-init is an industry standard method for Linux cloud instance initialization. Cloud-init has support across all major Linux distributions, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. It is also supported across all major public cloud providers, provisioning systems for private cloud infrastructure, and bare-metal installations. Cloud-init will identify the cloud it is running on, using the provided metadata Read More >
Author: Chris Bermudez
How to use OpenStack Swift as your Terraform Backend
Introduction In this quick guide we will go over how to use OpenStack Swift as the backend for Terraform. We will also go into some details about what a Terraform backend is as well as Terraform states. What is a Terraform backend? In Terraform, a backend tells how a “state” is loaded and how operations like “plan” Read More >
How to Configure Terraform to Automate OpenStack’s Resources
Introduction Although the Horizon dashboard provided in OpenStack is useful for most tasks, infrastructure automation tools like Terraform exist to allow you to create your infrastructure as code. This allows your infra teams to follow standard development flows and implement CI/CD to fully automate your cloud. In this guide, you will configure Terraform to leverage Read More >