Tag: Infrastructure

Indigenous Approaches to Digital Infrastructure

Earlier this year, Data & Society proudly welcomed Tiara Roxanne as a postdoctoral fellow. In this blog post, Roxanne introduces their approach to a vital question: Can a digital infrastructure be trustworthy from an Indigenous perspective? Throughout the course of their fellowship, Ro...

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has pumped over $4 billion into the Mountain West in just two years

The Department of the Interior has so far allocated over $8 billion of BIL funding nationwide, according to interactive data published by the department. That funding has gone to over 1,450 projects across seven categories: Addressing Drought, Ecosystem Restoration, Indian Water Rights Settleme...

A Case for Promoting Infrastructure Equity for the Olympics

In2017, the Los Angeles City Council approved the bid for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LA28), a mega event, opening on July 14th, 2028, that occur across the county, drawing an estimated 15,000 athletes, most of whom will be stationed at UCLA’s Olympic village. While the ci...

Power play: the other talents of urban infrastructure

It wasn’t a place I was expecting to see skiers. For starters, there wasn’t any snow. It was summer. And I was on the industrial waterfront in one of the world’s flattest regions. But perhaps strangest of all was the fact that they were skiing down the side of a power plant —...

Automating AWS Infrastructure with Terraform and Jenkins: A Step-by-Step Guide

In today’s fast-paced world, automating the provisioning and management of infrastructure is essential for efficient and reliable deployment of services. Terraform, a popular infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, combined with Jenkins, a powerful automation server, provides a robust solution for ...

Unlocking the Power of Terraform Modules: Simplify and Scale Your Infrastructure as Code

The need for efficient and scalable solutions is paramount in the dynamic world of cloud infrastructure and DevOps. As organizations increasingly adopt Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage and provision their cloud resources, Terraform has emerged as a powerful and versatile tool. Terraform enable...

Automating Infrastructure Deployment with Github, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible and Ec2 .

In this project we will be building and deploying a portfolio website . Our code is first developed on a local machine and pushed our Github repository. We will be pulling the code through Jenkins and using Jenkins as our continuous integration and delivery tool. Whenever we push a new code to the r...

26 Terraform Hacks for Effective Infrastructure Automation (With Examples)

Terraform has emerged as a powerful tool for automating provisioning and managing resources across various cloud providers. While many users start with the basics, there are numerous advanced techniques and hacks that can elevate your Terraform expertise to new heights. In this article, we&r...

Kubernetes Infrastructure At Medium

How we use Kubernetes to manage micro-services — a high-level view & Introduction Why Kubernetes? The simple answer is that it meets our needs quite nicely; and that it solves important, complex problems without us having to build the solutions ourselves. The obvious solutions Kubern...