The document discusses how datacenter provisioning traditionally requires separate requests for machines, IP addresses, hostnames, certificates, firewall rules, load balancers, application installation, and monitoring. It proposes using Terraform to programmatically provision infrastructure through providers that interface with disparate systems, allowing specialists' expertise to be scaled. The goal is to make datacenters as programmable as public clouds by standardizing the interface used to provision resources.

1. Rapid Infrastructure
Terraforming your datacenter
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2. What would change if your datacenter
was as programmable as the public
clouds?

3. Datacenter landscape
Heterogeneity is king

4. Datacenter landscape
Heterogeneity is king

5. Provisioning in the datacenter
Request a
machine
Request an IP
address
Request a
hostname
Request a
certificate
Request a
firewall rule
Request a
load balancer
Request
application
installation
Request
monitoring
You get the picture.
Request
backups

6. What if….?
Request a
machine
Request an IP
address
Request a
hostname
Request a
certificate
Request a
firewall rule
Request a
load balancer
Request
application
installation
Request
monitoring
You get the picture.
Request
backups

7. How do we deliver a standard
means of interfacing with
disparate infrastructure?

8. Terraform
Providers
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provider bigip {
address = var.bigip_address
username = var.bigip_username
password = var.bigip_password
}
provider vsphere {
vsphere_server = var.vsphere_server
user = var.vsphere_user
password = var.vsphere_password
}

11. How can we scale the expertise of our
specialists?