Infrastructure as Code

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Version control your infrastructure and eliminate human-error from device configuration with infrastructure-as-code tools and techniques. Tell your tools how the configuration should look and let them automate the rest.

Ansible

Ansible is an open source automation language from RedHat that uses modules to communicate with vendor specific devices. Ansible offers configurations and orchestrations to provide large productivity gains to a wide variety of automation challenges. More information

Terraform

Terraform is an open source tool used to build and deploy infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform unifies cross-vendor configuration in a single language and is cloud platform agnostic (unlike AWS CFT’s or Azure ARM templates) to produces immutable infrastructure deployments. More information

Terraformer

Terraformer is an open source tool used to generate Terraform files and states from an existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Terraformer permits to dump a candidate config from a firewall and to automatically create a well organized arborescence with tf files and terraform.tfstate files. After a first dump, you will be able to manage all your firewall resources with Terraform. More information

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