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CloudFormation Nested Stacks With Git Sync & a GitLab Pipeline Complete Overview

28 December 2024 / AWS, CloudFormation, GitLab

This post follows on from the previous post, CloudFormation Nested Stacks With Git Sync & a GitLab Pipeline. This post will detail all the steps now they have been fully worked out and tested using GitLab and CloudFormation. GitLab Pipeline Overview Changes are made to the filesChanges are pushed to repoPipeline for merge request creation […]

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CloudFormation Nested Stacks With Git Sync & a GitLab Pipeline

23 December 2024 / AWS, CloudFormation, GitLab

Continuing on from the work in the previous post for setting up GitSync and a GitLab pipeline with CloudFormation. This will detail how to use a Nested Stack that is stored in a GitLab repo and then deploy it with CloudFormation. In my previous example, CloudFormation would use the CloudFormation template file from the GitLab

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CloudFormation Git Sync & GitLab Pipeline

14 December 2024 / AWS, CloudFormation, GitLab

This is a continuation of the previous projects for Adding Numbers with API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB. That mini project was more about the AWS resources. This project is to set up CloudFormation to use GitLab sync and deploy the same CloudFormation Template, but using GitLab as the repo in a more managed and structured

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Go Firewall Rule Self-Service – v0.04 Milestone

30 November 2023 / ASA, ASA API Project, GitLab, Go, Go Firewall Rule Self-Service Project, Terraform

This update is where I have managed to get all the pieces together to form a complete Infrastructure as Code pipeline for the self-service firewall rules on the Cisco ASA. The Go firewall project incorporates the ASA API Terraform project and a GitLab pipeline. The flow of the application in the current prototype is as

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ASA Terraform Setup

30 September 2023 / ASA, ASA API Project, Cisco, GitLab, Terraform

Creating GitLab Project I have started this off by creating a new in GitLab. As I have previously setup my SSH key for GitLab I will just clone the repo and I’ll be able to push changes that way. My lab is up and running GNS3, I just ensure that I can ping and SSH

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Cisco Nexus EVPN VXLAN Fabric Ansible Automation GitLab

23 July 2023 / Ansible, Automation, Cisco, Git, GitLab, Networking, Nexus, VXLAN

This is a post that takes the previous Nexus EVPN VXLAN Fabric and the Nexus EVPN VXLAN Fabric using Ansible posts, and uses the GitLab pipeline to perform the automation. In a previous post, I have walked through the setting up GitLab for CI/CD pipelines with external runners. For this GitLab project, I am using

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Importing ACI Configuration to Terraform

4 July 2023 / ACI, CICD, DevOps, Git, Terraform

If you already have ACI running and then want to move to a DevOps approach and bring that configuration into Terraform, how can that be performed? The ACI Terraform provider supports importing configuration. All that is required is the resource and name of that resource. In the following example, I will use the Cisco ACI

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GitLab Variables for Credentials – ACI Lab

4 July 2023 / ACI, CICD, DevOps, Git, Terraform

In my previous ACI automation post, I used Terraform and the credentials were in plain text inside the main.tf file. I have updated this, so the credentials are stored in GitLab environment variables, which is a much more secure method. The process of the credentials from GitLab to Terraform are as follows; Create Environment Variables

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FortiGate Terraform with GitLab CI/CD Pipeline

3 July 2023 / CICD, DevOps, FortiGate, FortiGate & Terraform Project, Git, Terraform

In a previous post, I have created a sample of FortiGate config with Terraform. This was all performed locally from a Windows machine. While this is good in a lab environment, the major problem with it is that the management doesn’t scale. If there is more than a single network engineer, they need to share

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GitLab Terraform AWS Pipeline

2 July 2023 / AWS, CICD, DevOps, Git, GitLab

After setting up the GitLab CI/CI pipeline, the next step I wanted to take is to use Terraform to make changes to AWS infrastructure. There are several steps to configure a GitLab pipeline for Terraform. This example is for a new project with nothing yet configured in AWS yet. Create a New Project in GitLab

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