Arthur Schmunk Chief Cloud Evangelist @arthurschmunk

Terraform on AWS

Arthur Schmunk@arthurschmunk

Community

• Organiser of AWS User Groups

Companies

• Co-founder of CloudZone

• Chief Cloud Evangelist of Matrix

CloudZone, Matrix’s cloud unit, is a leading AWS solution provider in region. With over 7 years of experience with AWS, CloudZone provides its customers with a complete service package that includes consulting, professional services and managed services.

As an Premier Consulting Partner , Worldwide Channel Reseller and Managed Service Provider of Amazon Web Services, we ensure that our customers adopt the most advanced technologies and best practices.

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Agenda

• Small talk about Cloud Orchestration and latest Buzzwords

• Some facts about Terraforms

• Why Terraform ?

• Demo

HashiCorp Tools

What is cloud orchestration?

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Cloud Orchestration

• Infrastructure Lifecycle

• Provisionning

• Updating

• Destroying

Move fast without breaking things

Terrafrom Facts• Latest Version: 0.6.12 (February 24, 2016)

• Format: Based on

• Open Source, Written in Go lang

• Very Active Development (Less stable from my experience)

• Growing Community

HCL

• Based on libucl

• Human readable

• JSON Interoperable

Resource Graph

• Dependency Management

• Parallelisation

• Visualisation

• Change Ordering

Polyglot Orchestration#BaaS

Terraform provides a common configuration to launch infrastructure from physical and virtual servers to email and DNS providers. Once launched, Terraform safely and efficiently changes infrastructure as the configuration is evolved.

Atlas AWS Azure Chef

CloudFlare CloudStack

Consul Datadog Terraform

Docker Dyn

Google Cloud Heroku Mailgun MySQL

OpenStack Packet

PostgreSQL

DigitalOcean DNSMadeEasy

DNSimple TLS

VMware vCloud Director VMware vSpherePowerDNS

Rundeck StatusCake Template

CloudFormation Ansible Terraform

…

CloudFormation Ansible Terraform

Syntax JSON Yaml HCL

State Management No Yes Yes

Execution Control No No Yes

Manage Already Created Resources No Yes Hard

Providers Support AWS Only +++ ++

Terraform Commands

Multi-Provider

Multiple instances of a single provider can be configured so resources can apply to different settings. As an example, this allows Terraform to manage multiple regions with AWS.

DemoLinus Torvalds — 'Talk is cheap. Show me the code.'

Dell R610 128GB 600GB 10K SAS Dell R610 256GB 600GB 15K SAS

EC2 i2.4xlarge 600GB PIOPS 500 EC2 cr1.8xlarge 600GB PIOPS 1000

Don’t try to “Google Translate” your

environment to the Cloud

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Everything can be and should be automated

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