Journey of an IT Architect
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Firewall Deployment Patterns
ReadThe Hub-and-Spoke topology is the most common topic in the discussion for building cloud infrastructure design. This topology appeared in both AWS and Azure design…
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Cloud Certifications for Learning?
ReadCertification count is a measurement of capability of a consulting practice. At individual level it sometimes serves to navigate the learning journey, especially for engineers…
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Debating between count and for_each in Terraform
ReadIn Terraform, we often have to create an array of resources of the same type but similar attribute values. For code reusability, manageability and for…
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Test Open ID Connect Flows Locally
ReadEarlier this year, I had to integrate an application with an identity provider. Both claim to be compliant with Open ID Connect. But when they…
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IAM Roles for any workload
ReadBackground A few month back a client of mine wanted to use GitLab pipeline to deploy infrastructure on AWS with Terraform. The key question is…
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Managing EC2 instances across accounts with Ansible
ReadI regard AWS Systems Manager as omnipotent. Nonetheless, there are a few reasons that makes Ansible still a prevalent VM (EC2) management tool over Systems…