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Tag: infrastructure-as-code

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13 min read · make disaster recovery repeatable, testable, and aligned to RTO and RPO

Disaster Recovery as Code: automate RTO (recovery time) and RPO (recovery point) with infrastructure templates

RTO caps how long a service may stay down; RPO caps how much data you can lose. This guide encodes both targets in Terraform, automates backup verification, provisions failover infrastructure, and orchestrates recovery with tested pipelines.

13 min read · keep live infrastructure aligned with Terraform desired state

Infrastructure drift detection and remediation with Terraform

Manual console edits and stale state silently diverge from Terraform code. This guide runs scheduled drift scans, classifies low-risk changes for auto-remediation, and adds backend locking, lifecycle rules, and policy guardrails.

9 min read · Infrastructure as Code testing with Terraform, Test Kitchen, and InSpec

Testing Infrastructure as Code: reliable deployments with Terraform and Kitchen-Terraform

Faulty IaC still causes outages and cost spikes. This article lays out a layered test strategy, a Kitchen-Terraform plus InSpec walkthrough for an AWS S3 module, and practices that keep infra tests honest in CI.

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