Building Robust Packer AMIs

Posted by Miguel Lopez on Fri 16 November 2018 in automation

How to avoid Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock while using Packer


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Jenkins Pipeline Env Variables w/ AWS SSM

Posted by Miguel Lopez on Thu 12 April 2018 in automation

Pull environment variables from AWS Parameter Store in a Jenkins Declarative Pipeline


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If, If-else Statements in Terraform

Posted by Miguel Lopez on Tue 10 April 2018 in automation

Using if-else statements in terraforms


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Managing Envrionments on Serverless Framework

Posted by Miguel Lopez on Mon 02 April 2018 in tutorials

Learn how to deploy Lambda functions to dev/test/stage/prod environments on Serverless Framework


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Managing Automation Around Auto Scaling Groups

Posted by Miguel Lopez on Sat 31 March 2018 in automation

How to pick an automation toolset that supports auto scaling in the cloud


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Automate Salt-Minion Registrations on EC2

Posted by Miguel Lopez on Fri 30 March 2018 in automation

Use scripts to automatically register new EC2 minions with Salt-Master


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Introduction to SaltStack

Posted by Miguel Lopez on Thu 22 March 2018 in automation

SaltStack 101, Set up your first Salt-Master and Salt-Minion


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