Cloudify and Terraform can be integrated to provide the benefits of both platforms. Terraform is used to define and provision infrastructure, while Cloudify exposes selected Terraform-created resources as nodes to allow workflow automation and auto-scaling. The Cloudify Terraform plugin pulls new states from the Terraform backend and applies updates, enabling existing Terraform users to leverage additional Cloudify capabilities like service orchestration and management tools.

1. Cloudify and Terraform Integration
The best of both worlds
12/12/2017

2. Cloudify & Terraform
Infrastructure
Orchestration
Service
Orchestration
Host
Other
resource
Application Service
Enterprise
Service Management
Portal Service Catalogue
RBAC & Multi
Tenancy
Logging &
Monitoring
Contained-in
● Targeted for existing TF users as an
extension
● TF developers continue using TF as is
● Cloudify syncs with the TF backend
○ Pulls new states
○ Applies updates
● Cloudify deployment exposes selected data
from TF as Cloudify Nodes - this allows to
execute workflow, trigger auto-scaling,
healing using the standard Cloudify
platform on resources that was created by
TF.

3. Cloudify & Terraform: The Big Pic
Service
Orchestration
Host
Other
resource
Service
Enterprise
Service Management
Portal Service Catalog
RBAC & Multi
Tenancy
Logging & Monitoring
Contained-in
uService
uService Orchestration
Infrastructure
Orchestration
Azure Arm

4. Show me the code...
Cloudify compute nodes gets its IP
from a host that has been created
by Terraform
Cloudify Terraform Module creates
the underlying infrastructure by
executing the relevant Terraform
file and populates its state as
runtime properties
https://github.com/cloudify-incubator/cloudify-terraform-plugin
Cloudify passes input variables to
TF through Cloudify secrets

5. Thank you
Learn More:
https://github.com/cloudify-incubator/cloudify-terraform-plugin