After setting up your AWS Organization, the next step is to create and manage accounts within that organization using AWS Organizations’ native capabilities. This guide walks through the process of creating accounts, implementing best practices for account structure, and managing access across your organization with …

Before we can automate AWS provisioning, we need a secure and clean foundation. This section walks through the one-time, manual setup of your AWS root account and management organization — steps that cannot be automated due to required email, phone, and multi-factor verifications. By the end, you’ll have a root account …

Terraform modules become powerful when treated as versioned artifacts rather than just source code. This approach enables “build once, deploy many” practices where modules are published to artifact repositories, versioned, and promoted across environments. This article demonstrates how to structure modules for artifact …

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“Terragrunt” Gruntwork.io DRY and maintainable OpenTofu/Terraform code. Terragrunt is a flexible orchestration tool that allows Infrastructure as Code to scale. Define OpenTofu/Terraform code once, no matter how many environments you have.

“A Cheatsheet to Level Up Your Terraform” Amulya Bhatia, June 27, 2025. This guide moves beyond the fundamentals and into the patterns, functions, and architectural decisions that separate a simple configuration from a scalable, maintainable, and production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC) system. We’ll cover how to …

Cloud as Platform: Structuring for Scalability When you set up your cloud environment, you’re not just provisioning infrastructure — you’re designing a delivery platform. Whether you have one application or many, the structure you choose will either scale with you or slow you down. The cloud examples in this section …

Packaging with Hugging Face isn’t just about downloading a model or importing a Python library—it’s about understanding how to cleanly organize, version, and promote models, datasets, and tools across environments. At DevOptimize, we emphasize artifact-based workflows over traditional practices like Git pinning and …

“RHEL AI Developer Preview Guide”, Red Hat The rhelai-dev-preview GitHub repository by Red Hat provides a developer preview of RHEL AI, an enterprise-ready distribution of open-source generative AI models and tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It includes example notebooks, model-serving configurations, and …

Drop-in configuration is a pattern where a service, application, or utility defines a directory where configuration files can be added by other packages. This allows these packages to configure the service or add their own information alongside already-installed packages. This technique provides modularity and …