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Re:Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a... by Aeolun on Friday December 31, 2021 @07:55AM (#29747582)
> Is there any sort of comprehensive infra setup guide out there?

This would be the AWS certification at their different levels.

Re:Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a... by pyrale on Friday December 31, 2021 @08:07AM (#29747644)
I would tend to disagree. First, because not everyone is on AWS. Second, because even for people on AWS, some of a company's infra isn't on AWS (e.g. gmail). Third because not every infra setup work has an AWS tool.

To take a personal example, we use multiple infra providers.

Some of our infra is gmail (currently working on automating it with terraform).

Some of it is other infrastructure providers that aren't US-based.

etc.

Re:Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a... by sokoloff on Friday December 31, 2021 @09:12AM (#29748194)
What’s the “automating gmail with terraform” angle? G-suite automation? Or GCP?
Re:Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a... by pyrale on Saturday January 01, 2022 @04:31PM (#29763039)
g-suite.
Re:Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a... by europa on Friday December 31, 2021 @09:16AM (#29748227)
Can you elaborate on the terraform automation for gmail?
Re:Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a... by pyrale on Saturday January 01, 2022 @04:30PM (#29763032)
When we first built our user account system, we had to create a google user and add it to relevant groups in admin console whenever we hired someone, before the automation could kick in.

We're tired of that so we're looking into using a terraform provider [1], so that we can declare new users and instantiate their resources with a simple PR.

[1]: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/googlework...