Devops

How To Manage Infrastructure Data with Terraform Outputs — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Infrastructure Data with Terraform Outputs

Terraform outputs are used to extract information about the infrastructure resources from the project state. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Terraform outputs their syntax and parameters by creating a simple infrastructure that deploys Droplets. You’ll also learn about parsing the outputs programmatically, by converting them to JSON.

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Automating Test Environments With CircleCI — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Automating Test Environments With CircleCI

Build faster, more resilient pipelines — automate your development process with continuous integration using CircleCI and the cloud provider to reduce cost and increase velocity without compromising quality.

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How To Use Loops in Ansible Playbooks — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Loops in Ansible Playbooks

When automating server setup, sometimes you’ll need to repeat the execution of the same task using different values. For instance, you may need to change permissions of multiple files, or create multiple users. To avoid repeating the task several times in your playbook file, it’s better to use loops instead. In this guide, learn more about how to use loops in Ansible playbooks.

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Monitoring for Distributed and Microservices Deployments — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Monitoring for Distributed and Microservices Deployments

In this guide, we will take a look at how monitoring and metrics collection changes for highly distributed architectures and microservices. The growing popularity of cloud computing, big data clusters, and instance orchestration layers has forced operations professionals to rethink how to design monitoring at scale and tackle unique problems with better instrumentation. We will talk about what makes new models of deployment different and what strategies can be used to meet these new demands.

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CI/CD Tools Comparison: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildbot, Drone, and Concourse — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

CI/CD Tools Comparison: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildbot, Drone, and Concourse

Continuous integration, delivery, and deployment are strategies designed to help increase the velocity of development and the release of well-tested, usable products. In this guide, we will compare some popular free and open-source continuous integration, delivery, and deployment servers designed to make collaborative software development easier. We will take a look at Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildbot, Drone, and Concourse.

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How To Set Up Ansible Inventories — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Ansible Inventories

In this guide, we’ll demonstrate how to create Ansible inventory files and organize servers into groups and subgroups, how to set up host variables, and how to use patterns to control the execution of Ansible commands and playbooks per host and per group.

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