Platform engineering tutorials, guides, and insights
Discover how Backstage and internal developer portals solve fragmentation in engineering organizations. Learn about the software catalog, service discovery, ownership visibility, and how high-performing teams use developer portals to improve productivity and onboarding.
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Discover how to run AI agents on-prem inside Kubernetes with kagent. Learn how platform engineers can deploy autonomous AI agents without cloud dependencies, external APIs, or security compromises.
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Learn how to secure terraform state using write-only attributes and ephemeral resources, eliminating secret exposure from terraform state files.
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Tired of clicking through vSphere Client to deploy VMs? Learn how to automate Ubuntu 24.04 VM deployments using Terraform vSphere provider. This step-by-step guide shows you how to define your infrastructure as code, enabling deployment of multiple identical VMs with a single command. From provider
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Step away from manual template creation in VMware vSphere! This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to automate Ubuntu 24.04 VM template creation using HashiCorp Packer. Learn how to leverage the vSphere API to build consistent, repeatable virtual machine images with pre-installed Docker, configure
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Automating VM deployment with Terraform and Proxmox transforms what was once a tedious, error-prone process into a streamlined, code-driven workflow. This powerful combination enables you to define your infrastructure as code, version control your configurations, and deploy identical environments wi
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Tired of clicking through endless setup screens every time you need a new VM in Proxmox? In this comprehensive guide, I’ll show you how to automate Ubuntu 24.04 system installations using HashiCorp Packer. By creating a standardized template with cloud-init integration, you’ll cut your VM deployment
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Struggling to bring existing infrastructure under Terraform management? This guide walks you through the modern Terraform import method using the import block and generate-config-out flag. Follow a hands-on demo with UpCloud to see how easy and safe importing can be—no more writing HCL from scratch
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The BACK Stack (Backstage, ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Kyverno) enhances Kubernetes by ensuring compliance, security, and consistency across clusters. This Kyverno tutorial dives into Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine translating to “govern” in Greek. Kyverno’s policies are written as Kubernete
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Can you trust a Secrets Management SaaS solution? Learn about Akeyless’s Distributed Fragments Cryptography and learn how to use a customer fragment to secure your data so that even Akeyless doesn’t have access to your secrets.
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