Cross-Platform Infrastructure as a Code with Terraform

DevOps / SDLC, 0

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Resource Manager Templates, AWS Cloud Formation Templates, Google Instance Templates all are great ways to codify infrastructure on their respective platforms. But, as production requirements evolve to support hybrid multi-cloud scenarios the complexity of managing multiple language paradigms and infrastructure state over time can be rather burdensome. Hashicorp Terraform and Consul solve both of these problems. Providing a cloud agnostic API paired with data-backed infrastructure state, this open source tool-set empowers developers to create and maintain infrastructure in the same code base as their application allowing them to maintain infrastructure, just as they do product code. In this presentation we'll review Terraform and Consul, discuss use cases and demo a running multi-cloud environment.