Automation

When we published our HashiCorp Nomad and Vault: Dynamic Secrets post, the demo ran exclusively as a Python Flask application. Since then, the repository has

Every Nomad tutorial you will find online uses the docker driver. That makes sense — containers are portable, images bundle everything, and Docker is

Summary n8n is a source-available workflow automation platform released under a fair-code license. Using a visual, node-based editor, it lets teams connect

Summary SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is an open REST/JSON standard for automatically provisioning, updating, and de-provisioning user

Summary Self-hosting means running an open-source or commercial software stack on infrastructure you control, instead of consuming it as a managed cloud service

Summary Ansible is an agentless, open-source automation platform that uses human-readable YAML playbooks to automate configuration management, application

Summary Ansible AWX is the open-source web-based interface and API server for Ansible that enables teams to manage, schedule, and audit automation jobs with

Summary Ansible Molecule is a testing and development framework for Ansible roles that provisions ephemeral test instances, runs playbooks against them, and

Summary Ansible Vault is the built-in encryption mechanism for Ansible that allows teams to store sensitive values—passwords, API keys, certificates—alongside

Summary Bash (Bourne Again SHell) is a command-line interpreter and scripting language that serves as the default shell on most Linux distributions and macOS,

Summary Capybara is a Ruby library for acceptance testing web applications that provides a domain-specific language for simulating how real users navigate and

Summary Chef is a powerful configuration management platform that uses Ruby DSL-based cookbooks to define infrastructure state; CINC is the freely licensed

Summary CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (or Deployment), and refers to a set of practices and tooling that automate the process

Summary CI/CD combines Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (or Deployment) into a unified pipeline that automates the path from code commit to

Summary A CLI (Command Line Interface) is a text-based user interface where users interact with a program by typing commands, as opposed to using a graphical

Summary Configuration management is the discipline of systematically handling changes to systems and infrastructure so that they maintain integrity and

Summary Continuous Delivery is a practice in which software is kept in a continuously releasable state through automated build, test, and staging pipelines,

Summary Continuous Deployment is the practice of automatically deploying every change that passes automated tests directly to production, removing all manual

Summary Continuous Integration (CI) is the practice of frequently merging code changes into a shared repository, where each merge triggers an automated build

Summary Cucumber is the most widely adopted BDD framework, translating human-readable Gherkin feature files into automated test execution by mapping each step

Summary End-to-end (E2E) testing exercises real user journeys through the entire application stack—from the user interface through the backend to the

Summary Gherkin is the domain-specific language used to express BDD test scenarios. Its Given/When/Then structure makes test cases readable by non-technical

Summary GitHub Actions is GitHub's native automation platform that enables teams to build, test, and deploy code by defining event-driven workflows as YAML

Summary GitLab CI is GitLab's built-in CI/CD system where pipelines are defined as YAML in a .gitlab-ci.yml file, enabling automated build, test, and deployment

Summary Jenkins is the most widely adopted open-source CI/CD automation server, enabling teams to define build, test, and deployment pipelines through a rich

Summary JUnit is the foundational testing framework for Java applications, offering a simple annotation-based model for defining and running unit tests, and

Summary Pulumi is an Infrastructure as Code platform that replaces domain-specific configuration languages with general-purpose programming languages, allowing

n8n 2.0 landed on December 8, 2024, and it's the kind of release nobody gets excited about but everyone eventually appreciates. No flashy features, no shiny UI

A lot has happened in the eight months since we covered Mondoo's March 2025 release. If you're already using the platform, you've probably noticed some big

In recent years, artificial intelligence has dramatically changed the way we work, highlighting just how much it can enhance human creativity and

In a cloud-native environment, secrets management is a critical aspect of security. HashiCorp Vault is a popular tool for managing secrets and protecting

In today's cloud-centric world, managing infrastructure while ensuring security is paramount. HashiCorp provides two powerful tools—Terraform and Vault—that

Terraform functions have become a cornerstone in managing infrastructure as code. These built-in functions empower developers to manipulate data, perform

Why another article on that topic? We were already talking about mondoo in a previous article. Mondoo is brought to you by the team who gave you InSpec and the

Since 2018, Infralovers boosts knowledge at a telco giant via training, workshops & coaching on GitLab, K8s, Ansible, Observability & more across depts.

In 2023, Infralovers supported a pan-European bank in transforming automation processes, providing Terraform consulting and tailored training for ~100 staff.

What is HashiCorp Nomad? HashiCorp Nomad is not only a lightweight alternative to Kubernetes. It's simple to use, easy to setup and very scalable. I use it on

Infralovers provided custom Ansible/Terraform training (2021) for a global automotive supplier, boosting awareness & skills for IT infrastructure

Automate creation of VMWare virtual machines In the previous post about VMWare templates with packer and also the revised post about that topic we introduced

Automated VMWare Templates with HashiCorp Packer Within all the cloud providers you get automated built template based virtual machines - what about doing this

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