Deploying Flynn.io with Terraform (and a little Python)

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Lightcycle: Deploying Flynn.io
with Terraform (and a little
Python)

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What is Flynn.io
● Simplified deployment cycle for microservices
● Heroku and Docker interfaces
● Fully decentralized
● Fully automated blue / green deployment
● Deploys anywhere there‘s Ubuntu
● Data appliances (managed databases)
● Comparable to Deis or Kubernetes, but with some
advantages over both

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What is Terraform
● Cloud resource orchestration framework
● Configuration is custom file format, or JSON
● Builds a directed acyclic graph
● Very limited programmatic capabilities
● Many supported cloud providers and services

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What is Lightcycle?
● Lightweight blue-green deployment framework for
Flynn.io clusters
● Version 1 targets AWS, but framework is platform
agnostic
● Python3 on top of Terraform, with a DSL for
Terraform JSON
● Provides more dynamism than TF DAG allows
● 100% open source, forever
● Prealphaware: get in on the ground floor

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More Info
● https://flynn.io/
● https://www.terraform.io/
● https://github.com/greenfieldguild/lightcycle
Nathaniel Eliot
temujin9@greenfieldguild.com
http://greenfieldguild.com/

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More Info
● https://flynn.io/
● https://www.terraform.io/
● https://github.com/greenfieldguild/lightcycle
Nathaniel Eliot
temujin9@greenfieldguild.com
http://greenfieldguild.com/