HASHICORP’S TERRAFORM

AN OVERVIEW

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Reusability
• Faster time to develop
• Faster time to market
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

Self-healing

Cattle, Not Pets

Single source of truth

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LATEST TRENDS

Aug. 2018
According to the CNCF Survey on August 2018, the
use of Terraform in automated releases and CI/CD
makes up 27%, next to Jenkins (70%).

The Flexera RightScale 2019 Surveyon Cloud

Computing Trends, states that Terraform shows
strongest growth with its adoption rate rising to
55% since last year from 20 to 31% adoption.

2019

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 CONFIGURATION TOOLS USED (% OF ALL RESPONDENTS)

Current Use

Planned to Use

31 17
TERRAFORM

37 15
PUPPET

37 16
CHEF

41 16
ANSIBLE

Source: RightScale 2019 Report from Flexera

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HYBRID CLOUD, MUCH?

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 TERRAFORM AT 10,000 FEET

Code Plan

Define your infrastructure Plan and validate resources

as code to be provisioned

Design
Deploy
Determine your
infrastructure requirements Apply the infrastructure
code in your environment

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 Cloud-agnostic

Execution Plans

Resource Graph
KEY FEATURES

Change Automation

Infrastructure as Code

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 PROVIDERS

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Unified language syntax Workspaces

HCL (Hashicorp Configuration Language) Switch between environments

Modularity Test-Driven Development

Kitchen, Inspec, Terratest

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 TERRAFORM VS NATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE AUTOMATION TOOLS

FEATURES TERRAFORM AWS CLOUDFORMATION AZURE ARM

Resource Lifecycle Management

State Management

Interpolation Syntax and First-class

Expression Syntax

Resource and Dependency Visualization

Readability

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 TERRAFORM IN ACTION

Amazon S3

Remote State
Management
AWS Cloud

VPC

Elastic Load Balancing

CloudFlare DNS
Amazon EC2

Autoscaling group

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 HYBRID CLOUD ARCHITECTURE

Cloud
Storage

Remote State Management

Cloud
DNS

AWS Cloud
Region
Cloud
Container
Load
Engine
Balancing VPC
Cloud
Interconnect

Amazon RDS

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 TERRAFORM v0.12 - WHAT’S NEW?

Structural rendering of First-class Expression

plans Syntax

Context-rich error Iteration Constructs

messages

v0.12

Generalized Type
Terraform Cloud
System

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