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      Automating infrastructure with IaC
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      <p>Are you responsible for creating and maintaining resources like GitHub repositories, DigitalOcean servers, Amazon S3 buckets and Cloudfront distributions or DNS records in Cloudflare?</p>

      <p>Do you do that through the various web UIs?</p>

      <p>I'd recommend looking into infrastructure as code tools such as Ansible, Terraform and Pulumi.</p>

      <p>You can create, manage and destroy these resources by writing text files rather than clicking around in web UIs, which you can store and share using version control tools.</p>

      <p>Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools are something that I use when working with infrastructure, whether it's for a client project or <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/rebuilding-acquia/blob/4efe94398f4d8715d22ca677756beb36017d4e74/main.tf">a talk demo</a> (this uses Terraform to create an Amazon S3 bucket and Cloudflare distribution, link it to an SSL certificate and create my DNS records - all automatically).</p>

              
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      <p>Are you responsible for creating and maintaining resources like GitHub repositories, DigitalOcean servers, Amazon S3 buckets and Cloudfront distributions or DNS records in Cloudflare?</p>

      <p>Do you do that through the various web UIs?</p>

      <p>I'd recommend looking into infrastructure as code tools such as Ansible, Terraform and Pulumi.</p>

      <p>You can create, manage and destroy these resources by writing text files rather than clicking around in web UIs, which you can store and share using version control tools.</p>

      <p>Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools are something that I use when working with infrastructure, whether it's for a client project or <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/rebuilding-acquia/blob/4efe94398f4d8715d22ca677756beb36017d4e74/main.tf">a talk demo</a> (this uses Terraform to create an Amazon S3 bucket and Cloudflare distribution, link it to an SSL certificate and create my DNS records - all automatically).</p>

              
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