Infrastructure as Code (IaC) enhances infrastructure management but brings security risks like misconfigurations and secret exposure. This guide outlines best practices for securing Terraform and Ansible pipelines, including treating IaC like application code, managing secrets appropriately, implementing automated security scans, and enforcing the principle of least privilege for enhanced protection.
Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you 🙂 Usually, when the words Ansible and Terraform appear in the same sentence is for the opposite scenario. Many articles out there provide examples of using Terraform to deploy infrastructure followed by running Ansible to configure it using the local-exec provisioner. […]
In this post, we will discuss automating Kubernetes deployment using Ansible. In my example, I have used CentOS VMs (on VMware) for deploying Kubernetes. But technically Kubernetes deployment steps don’t differ irrespective of the platform you use. Before getting started to make sure you have Ansible server up […]