Frederic Lavigne

Cloud May 3, 2023

Turn Your Terraform Templates into Deployable Architectures

8 min read - Your first step in succeeding with your platform engineering journey. Recently, IBM Cloud introduced projects and deployable architectures. Projects are a named collection of configurations that are used to manage related resources and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments. A deployable…

Cloud December 19, 2022

IBM Cloud Solution Tutorials: 2022 in Review

6 min read - A look back at the year 2022 by the team creating the IBM Cloud Solution Tutorials. Similar to 2021’s review post, it’s once again the time of year to take some time and look at the work done, new experiences…

Cloud October 14, 2022

Use Client-to-Site VPN to Securely Access Your IBM Cloud Resources

3 min read - Who wants to manage their own VPN stack when you can easily provision a fully managed client-to-site VPN? This post is a follow-up to a post I wrote two years ago called “Access Virtual Servers in a Virtual Private Cloud…

Cloud March 21, 2022

Build Hardened and Pre-Configured VPC Custom Images with Packer

5 min read - How to use the IBM Cloud plugin for Packer with the Instance Metadata service to create a custom image with pre-installed IBM Cloud CLI and automatically configured Log Analysis and Monitoring agents. As you build a workload on top of…

Cloud December 17, 2021

IBM Cloud Solution Tutorials: 2021 in Review

8 min read - The year 2021 feels like 2020, but more mature and secure. You can catch up with our 2018, 2019 and 2020 wrap-ups and then move on to this year 2021 in review. We hope you enjoy! The year 2021, at…

Cloud November 22, 2021

Use Terraform to Define Custom Views for Your Log Analysis and Activity Tracker Instances

2 min read - How to use LogDNA provider for Terraform to define custom views. IBM Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker are two critical components under the Observability category in IBM Cloud They can be used to collect, filter, search and tail log…

Cloud March 15, 2021

A To-Do List for Every New IBM Cloud Project

4 min read - When planning to deploy a solution in IBM Cloud, there are several areas to carefully consider. These include how you will set up the account, which permissions to assign to users, how to log and monitor your systems, how to…

Cloud February 11, 2021

Creating Virtual Private Endpoint Gateways with Terraform

3 min read - Customers that use cloud-based services for production workloads need to have an increased focus on security. For many customers, accessing services in a secure manner is not only a sensible corporate policy, but, in some cases, required by compliance regulations.…

Cloud December 17, 2020

Getting More Out of Your VPC Flow Logs with Kentik Network Observability Cloud

5 min read - What problem are we solving with VPC Flow Logs? Deploying distributed solutions comes with a set of requirements at all levels, from ensuring the security of the data to providing great availability and response time to end-users. There are several…

Cloud December 10, 2020

IBM Cloud Solution Tutorials: 2020 in Review

6 min read - One of our team’s favorite year-end customs is to look back at how our IBM Cloud Solution Tutorials evolved, our favorite (new) technologies, and more. You can catch up with our 2018 and 2019 wrap-ups and then move on to…

Cloud October 14, 2020

Access Virtual Servers in a Virtual Private Cloud with OpenVPN

3 min read - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) comes with an additional layer of security because your workload can be completely hidden from the public Internet. There are times, however, when you will want to get into this private network. A common practice is…

Cloud December 11, 2019

IBM Cloud Solution Tutorials — 2019 in Review

5 min read - As we look back at 2019, these are our favorite solution tutorials and technologies. With the year 2019 closing down, it is time again to look back at the new and updated IBM Cloud solution tutorials and technology topics we…