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We can use IAM to control who has access to what within our project and who can do what to things like storage buckets, but what if we wanted to restrict when someone could do something or to what object in a bucket. That’s where IAM Conditions come in to play.

What’s Terraform? # Terraform is a tool created by Hashicorp which allows us to describe our infrastructure in easily readable code. This code can also be stored in our source code management system to allow us to track changes to our infrastructure over time.

Installing the software we need to run our website or tools, can take some time to complete. This isn’t ideal when our deployments are time sensitive, like when we need to scale up the web server pool to handle that sudden interest in your latest line of fancy socks.

What is it? # Multiplexing, sometimes referred to as muxing, is a way of making use of one connection for a number of signals. The internet connection you’re reading this on may have been multiplexed at some stage along its physical route to your building or local communications tower and can used to reduce the overall cost of having to lay multiple cables to endpoints.

When creating our infrastructure, either in the cloud or on prem, we often usually need a way to connect to machines running behind the scenes to do things, such as upgrades or fixing problems.