automation

The most popular IaC tool at this point is HashiCorp’s Terraform. However during my usual internet browsing, I found another Infrastructure-as-Code tool Pulumi. Its been around for years at this point but I only discovered it very recently. Pulumi achieves the same thing, Infrastructure-as-Code. However, it uses a different approach. Instead of having to write Terraform HCL files, you can use your favorite programming language such as Python or Go to write code for your infrastructure....

While working on home server automation, I came across the awesome Open Source project healthchecks. I had been looking for a simple way to monitoring my Ansible home automation setup that is triggered via cron and send me alerts if my home automation takes longer than a set interval or just fails. healthchecks.io, the service for healthchecks project, is an extremely simple dashboard for setting up monitoring. It also has integration with alerting systems as well as commonly used communication tools such as Teams, Slack, Signal and numerous others....