6 posts tagged with "Infrastructure As Code"

In the fast-paced world of software development, delivering high-quality software quickly and efficiently has become critical to success. Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are pivotal in achieving this goal.

MindsDB is a platform for customizing AI from dynamic data. With its nearly 200 integrations to data sources and AI/ML frameworks, any developer can use their own data to customize AI for their purposes, faster and more securely.

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MindsDB integrates with numerous data sources, including databases, vector stores, and applications. To make your data accessible to many popular AI/ML frameworks, all you have to do is execute a single statement to connect your data to MindsDB. MindsDB integrates with popular AI/ML frameworks, including LLMs and AutoML. So once you connect your data to MindsDB, you can pass it to different models to pick the best one for your use case and deploy it within MindsDB. With MindsDB, you can manage models and data seamlessly, implement custom automation flows, and make your AI systems improve themselves with continuous finetuning.

With MindsDB, you can build AI-powered applications easily, even with no AI/ML experience. You can interact with MindsDB through SQL, MongoDB-QL, REST APIs, Python, and JavaScript.

Follow along to learn how to set up MindsDB in Docker Desktop.

In the evolving landscape of cloud computing, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has emerged as a pivotal practice, streamlining the provisioning and management of IT infrastructure. Among the tools enabling this revolution, Terraform by HashiCorp stands out as a leader. This article delves into what Infrastructure as Code is, with a specific focus on Terraform, exploring its functionalities, benefits, and how it’s transforming the way organizations deploy and manage their cloud resources.

Docker’s lesser-discussed aspects such as its complexities, performance nuances, security concerns, and environmental inconsistencies are the focus of this article. You will get a balanced perspective on when Docker shines and when alternative technologies might better suit your needs.

This article is a brief overview of some challenges with IaC. It's not a complete guide to IaC, but it will give you an idea of what to watch out for.

Introduction​

Ansible is an open-source IT automation tool that simplifies and automates various manual IT processes, including provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration. It is designed to be minimal, consistent, secure, and highly reliable, with an extremely low learning curve for administrators, developers, and IT managers.

Ansible is primarily intended for IT professionals who use it for tasks such as application deployment, updates on workstations and servers, cloud provisioning, configuration management, and intra-service orchestration. & It enables cross-platform automation and orchestration at scale.

It is created by contributions from an active open-source community. Ansible is designed to be simple, powerful, and agentless, which means it does not require any software or agents to be installed on the managed nodes.

Ansible uses a declarative language called YAML to define automation tasks, which makes it easy to read and understand.