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Luca Berton

Luca Berton

Red Hat automation engineer · IaC since 2014

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I'm Luca Berton, a Red Hat automation engineer. I publish the walkthroughs, gotchas, and copy-paste configs I actually use on real projects. Skip the trial-and-error.

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1# main.tf from a real project I shipped this week2resource "aws_s3_bucket" "site" {3  bucket = "terraformpilot.com"4  tags = {5    Project = "Pilot"6    Owner   = "lberton"7  }8}910module "vpc" {11  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/vpc/aws"12  version = "~> 5.0"13  cidr    = "10.0.0.0/16"14}
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Everything you need to ship infrastructure

Tutorials, deep dives and reference architectures designed by engineers who run Terraform in production every day.

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    Modules, workspaces, remote state, drift detection — patterns extracted from real production estates.

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    Terraform vs OpenTofu vs Pulumi vs Crossplane. Side-by-side matrices, not marketing fluff.

  • Secure by default

    State encryption, secret handling, policy-as-code, drift alerts and supply-chain hygiene baked in.

  • Fast feedback loops

    tfvars layouts, plan caching, CI templates and review automations that keep teams shipping daily.

  • Multi-cloud ready

    AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem providers — portable layouts that survive an org-wide cloud pivot.

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    From your first plan/apply to managing thousands of resources — guided tracks for every level.

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Terraform By Example

A practical, example-driven approach for beginners learning to provision and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform.

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Kubernetes Recipes

A practical cookbook for production Kubernetes

Battle-tested recipes for deploying, securing, and operating Kubernetes — pod design, networking, storage, RBAC, observability, and day-2 troubleshooting.

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Practical RHEL AI

Build, deploy, and operate AI workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

A hands-on guide to running AI and machine-learning workloads on RHEL — from GPU enablement to MLOps pipelines, model serving, and platform engineering for AI.

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Courses I teach

Terraform for Beginners: Code, Deploy and Scale

Master Terraform from zero to hero. Learn IaC, deploy to AWS, Azure, GCP, and automate your cloud infrastructure with this Udemy course.

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Learn Ansible Automation in 250+ Examples

A massive, example-driven Udemy course on Ansible — every module and pattern you need, taught through 250+ runnable lab scenarios.

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Open Source Observability Stack Essentials

A Coursera course on the open-source observability stack — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and the patterns that connect them.

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Terraform modules and reference setups I keep reaching for on real client work. Same code, packaged so you can drop it in.

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TerraformPilot IaC Pack

Production-ready Terraform assets for the AI era

Verified, battle-tested Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines, environment scaffolding, and AI prompt packs to ship IaC with confidence.

  • 5 production-ready Terraform modules (AWS VPC, EKS, RDS, S3+CloudFront, Lambda)
  • 3-environment folder structure (dev/staging/prod) with tfvars templates
  • GitHub Actions + GitLab CI pipeline templates
  • AI prompt pack — 20+ curated prompts for ChatGPT, Copilot & Claude
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AnsiblePilot Automation Pack

Tested playbooks and roles for real-world automation

Production-ready Ansible playbooks, roles, inventory templates, Molecule testing setup, and troubleshooting guides by the AnsiblePilot author.

  • 25+ tested Ansible playbooks organized by use case
  • 5 reusable roles with Molecule tests
  • Dynamic inventory templates (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • ansible.cfg best practices template
  • + 3 more

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Full Stack DevOps Bundle

Terraform + Ansible + CI/CD — everything in one package

Complete infrastructure-as-code toolkit. Includes the Terraform IaC Pack and Ansible Automation Pack plus CI/CD integration templates.

  • Everything in TerraformPilot IaC Pack
  • Everything in AnsiblePilot Automation Pack
  • Terraform + Ansible integration playbooks
  • End-to-end CI/CD pipeline (provision + configure + deploy)
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