Terraform

Gitlab-CI is awesomelishiously simple. Let’s assume you have a Terraform Gitlab project with a folder structure like mine: README.md .gitignore terraform │ main.tf │ outputs.tf └──variables.tf You can find a .gitignore example here. Since we can provide our credentials via environment variables, the provider can look like: provider "aws" { version = ">= 2.28.1" } In the Gitlab project page, go to “Settings” > “CI/CD” > “Variables”, and set the following variables: ...

With any project, personal or for clients, I develop and build applications in Docker containers; so it would be really convenient to run these as containers in production. Usually I’ll spin up a small Ubuntu VM (GCP/Azure/AWS/Digital Ocean) and install Docker manually. I would love to run everything with Kubernetes as a container orchestrator, but the costs of such a cluster for personal usage seems rather high. Until I found this article by Remko Seelig, using Kubernetes on Google Cloud with preemptible nodes, which is about half the price of regular instances. You loose some availability but that’s probably no problem in my case. ...