Call it Software Engineering and Move On

Call it Software Engineering and Move On

Tuesday, Apr 9, 2024
It often seems like we’re caught in an endless cycle of redefining roles and disciplines within tech—DevOps, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering—each iteration arriving every two or three years to align with the latest trend, tool, or methodology. While these evolving titles and categories attempt to capture real changes in practice and tooling, they also tend to muddy the waters. At a certain point, you start to wonder: can’t we just call all of this Software Engineering and move on? ...

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Default Tags in the Terraform AWS Provider

Default Tags in the Terraform AWS Provider

Thursday, May 13, 2021
It is really great when small things come along that simplify or reduce the amount of code you need and the implementation of Tags as part of the Terraform AWS Provider does exactly that. Thanks for making my future life easier. This has just come out Default Tags in the Terraform AWS Provider, The Terraform AWS Provider (v3.38.0+) now supports defining default tags at the provider level—letting you centrally assign tags like “Environment,” “Owner,” or “Project” across almost all AWS resources, with individual resource tags overriding these defaults. While Auto Scaling Groups require a manual merge workaround, this feature streamlines tag management, enhances consistency, improves readability in infrastructure-as-code, and aligns with AWS best practices, making global tag enforcement simple and efficient. ...

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