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WinOps Conference London 2017 session
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NOTE: A recording this presentation can be found here: https://youtu.be/0CEF4eZ6HiQ
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Then in our hand-on exercise, we'll author terraform scripts to deploy virtual networks, virtual machines and app services to azure. Finally we'll walk through some azure tooling & integrations for terraform (azure cloud shell, hosted images in azure devops, azure marketplace images, VSCode extensions etc).
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Using HashiCorp’s Terraform to build your infrastructure on AWS - Pop-up Loft...Amazon Web Services
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NOTE: A recording this presentation can be found here: https://youtu.be/0CEF4eZ6HiQ
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A blog article about this topic is also available here: https://adinermie.com/deploying-azure-devops-ado-using-terraform/
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View webinar recording at https://www.winwire.com/webinars
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When your organization is moving to cloud, the infrastructure layer transitions from running dedicated servers at limited scale to a dynamic environment, where you can easily adjust to growing demand by spinning up thousands of servers and scaling them down when not in use.
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Some links from the slides:
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https://cloudcraft.co/
https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/
https://github.com/antonbabenko/modules.tf-lambda
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View webinar recording at https://www.winwire.com/webinars
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Best Practices of Infrastructure as Code with TerraformDevOps.com
When your organization is moving to cloud, the infrastructure layer transitions from running dedicated servers at limited scale to a dynamic environment, where you can easily adjust to growing demand by spinning up thousands of servers and scaling them down when not in use.
The future of DevOps is infrastructure as code. Infrastructure as code supports the growth of infrastructure and provisioning requests. It treats infrastructure as software: code that can be re-used, tested, automated and version controlled. HashiCorp Terraform adopts infrastructure as code throughout its tool to prevent configuration drift, manage immutable infrastructure and much more!
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Slides for my "Terraform modules and best-practices" talk on meetups during September 2018.
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https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/
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As we all know, the purpose of DevOps is to execute the delivery of software more efficiently and effectively, and we require tools that can make this delivery fast and efficient. This is where tools like Terraform aid companies with the infrastructure of code as well as automation. Impressico helps business to execute the delivery of software more efficiently and effectively, and the tools that can make this delivery fast and efficient.
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#GlobalAzureAthens
“ With infrastructure as code (IaC), infrastructure, such as
networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection
topologies, is defined and deployed using DevOps
methodologies and versioning. ”
10. Terraform creates and manages resources on cloud platforms and other
services through their application programming Interfaces (APIs).
Providers enable Terraform to work with virtually any platform or service
with an accessible API.
11. Visual Studio Code
Azure PowerShell
Windows CMD
Bash
Windows Terminal
Azure Cloud Shell
Azure DevOps pipelines
12. Write
Define infrastructure in
configuration files
Plan
Review the changes Terraform
will make to your infrastructure
Apply
Terraform provisions
your infrastructure and
updates the state files
1000+
PROVIDERS
Write
Terraform configuration files define the
infrastructure resources to be created or
managed with Terraform.
Plan
The "terraform plan" command lets you
see how Terraform will modify your
infrastructure after it is initialized.
Apply
With "terraform apply", you can apply the
changes to your infrastructure once the
plan has been reviewed and approved.
13. terraform init
Main Terraform Commands
It downloads and installs any necessary plugins and modules to initialize a Terraform
working directory.
terraform plan
terraform apply
terraform validate
terraform destroy
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>
>
>
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This command, generates an execution plan showing what will happen when you apply
your configuration. In other words, it is a preview of the changes to your infrastructure
without having to make them.
It applies the changes to an infrastructure. Depending on the desired state, resources are
created, updated, or deleted.
It validates the terraform configuration files to check for any syntax errors.
This command, destroys the infrastructure resources managed by terraform.
14. Terraform Benefits
• Cloud platform agnostic
• Agentless
• Ease deployment
• Cost Estimation
It doesn’t require additional software. Nothing is needed to install. The
agentless approach in Terraform simplifies the infrastructure management
process, increases flexibility, improves security, and reduces costs.
Being agnostic cloud platform terraform means it can be used to manage
infrastructure resources across multiple cloud providers, such as Microsoft
Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, and others.
Organizations can deploy infrastructure resources faster, more efficiently, and
consistently while reducing errors and automating infrastructure deployments.
The cost estimation benefits of Terraform can help organizations better manage
their infrastructure spending, create more accurate budgets, optimize resource
usage, and choose the most cost-effective cloud provider for their needs.
15. Terraform Terminology
Resource: Resources are the most important element in the Terraform language. Each resource block describes one or
more infrastructure objects, such as virtual networks, compute instances, or higher-level components such as
DNS records.
Provider: A plugin that defines the APIs and resources available for a specific cloud platform or service. For Azure, the
provider is the "azurerm" provider.
Module: Modules are containers for multiple resources that are used together. A module consists of a collection of .tf
and/or .tf.json files kept together in a directory.
Input variable: Input variables let you customize aspects of Terraform modules without altering the module's own
source code.
Output variable: Output values make information about your infrastructure available on the command line and can
expose information for other Terraform configurations to use. Output values are similar to return values
in programming languages.
Data Source: Data sources allow Terraform to use information defined outside of Terraform, defined by another
separate Terraform configuration, or modified by functions.
State: Terraform must store state about your managed infrastructure and configuration. This state is used by
Terraform to map real world resources to your configuration, keep track of metadata, and to improve
performance for large infrastructures. This state is stored by default in a local file named "terraform.