The IT Automation Blog - page 12
How Linux helps to understand god
26 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
A simple experiment on a Linux machine can help us to understand the Holy Word of God.
...Let's create value first, we can automate it later.
25 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
“Let’s create value first, we can automate it later”. That is a very common phrase and I am sure you can relate. There is nothing wrong with creating value. But what if automation actually is the foundation for value creation?
...Linux is all about priorities
24 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
It looks like you are reading this text right now. Besides the fact that there are a million other things you could do instead you made a decision that this is your prioritiy right now. Very similar to what the Linux Kernel does all the time: Find out what our priority as and act accordingly.
...Synchronous vs. asynchronous replication
23 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
Every high-availabile system must keep application data up to date for multiple nodes simultaneously. As long as our application is stateless (like static webpages for instance) we may copy data manually between nodes. If our application writes data (aka stateful) we have to make sure data is replicated between nodes. We can do this either synchronous or asynchronous.
...Working with hidden dependencies in Terraform
22 May 2021 - Tobias Kempfer
In order for Terraform to function properly it has to build a dependency graph. There may be situations where dependencies are hidden because we do not reference them. We can make these dependencies visible to Terraform with the depends_on Meta-Argument.
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