A more comprehensive answer: If you want to check the existence of a local file before performing some task, here is the comprehensive snippet: – name: get file stat to be able to perform a check in the following task local_action: stat path=/path/to/file register: file – name: copy file if it exists copy: src=/path/to/file dest=/destination/path when: … Read more
Vagrant should be used more like a staging environment to test your infrastructure changes. It should be your test bed for automated infrastructure changes. The way we use it at my company is like so: Create VMs for our managed servers in Vagrant. Create puppet definitions for each server. Create cucumber tests for each server. … Read more
There is no –except feature in terraform destroy command currently. If you really want to do that, and you know what you are doing, here is the workaround. # list all resources terraform state list # remove that resource you don’t want to destroy # you can add more to be excluded if required terraform … Read more
What are common symptoms of over-engineering? Code that solves problems you don’t have.
Security. Your web server lives in a DMZ, accessible to the public internet and taking untrusted input from anonymous users. If your web server gets compromised, and you’ve followed least privilege rules in connecting to your DB, the maximum exposure is what your app can do through the database API. If you have a business … Read more