Use Infrastructure as Code

Introduction Have you ever worked with cloud environments and realized how time-consuming it can be to set them up and develop quickly, consistently, securely, and, above all, reproducibly? There are many tools available to help. Some are provider-specific, such as CloudFormation for AWS or Bicep for Azure. Others, like the well-known Terraform and its open-source successor OpenTofu, support multiple cloud service providers. Most of these tools use a domain-specific language (DSL) to define your environment. They offer robust toolsets to ensure security and consistency. While useful, learning another language and tackling its complexities can be a drawback. ...

December 18, 2024 · 5 min · 870 words · Ralf Gnädinger

Rds Import Bacpac

Have you ever tried to import a BACPAC file into an RDS Microsoft Sql Server instance? Than you might experienced the same issue, that the import process was aborted and the added database was inaccessible. Import Error To understand what causes this issue, we have to understand what a BACPAC is. In the documentation from Microsoft they explain it like this: A BACPAC file is a ZIP file with an extension of BACPAC containing the metadata and data from the database.1 ...

May 8, 2021 · 2 min · 292 words · Ralf Gnädinger