Category Archives: Linux

Cloud agnostic approach with Terraform

If you’ve been working with both AWS and Azure you should have noticed that each of them has some advantages.

Tools like Terraform might be very helpful if you’re not familiar with both CloudFormation and Azure RM.

However don’t consider Terraform as a nonpareil (this is not true at all), it is simple tool for simple tasks.

So in this  post I’ll tell you about Terraform terms and concepts and show example with AWS & Azure.

For a bit more complicated infrastructure you’ll have to use CloudFormation and Azure RM

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Install Microsoft sqlcmd command-line tools on AWS Linux

If you have MS SQL server in your environment and have to do some actions (execute migrations, change data, etc.) with it during your CI/CD it might be quite inconvenient to use Windows machine.

Fortunately we have sqlcmd for Linux, and Microsoft provides some instructions for popular Linux distributions – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-setup-tools

But what if you have AWS Linux? If you try to use instructions from MS you will fail and there’s not much information across the Internet about this topic. The only useful link is here.

Since my env is highly automated I decided to create simple script to install sqlcmd on AWS Linux and share it with you:

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