How simple Terraform plans make hybrid and multi-cloud a reality: an introduction

Most non-IT people will have heard about the word Terraform, will automatically think of this, changing dead planets into Earth like paradises.

Terraforming Mars will be an escapade in automation, just like terraforming your AWS environment.

But for those of us that work in Infrastructure and Cloud; Terraform is a language definition that allows the deployment of infrastructure as code. There is a loose analogy there, with Terraform you are building your environment exactly as you wish with a pre-configured script to create a predefined end point, just like the science fiction future environment building a new earth from barren rock.

Anybody who has utilized AWS will be aware of Terraform. It was written by Hashicorp and it is one of the primary methods used to automatically build AWS environments in this bold and new DevOps world.

What not a lot of people aware of is that Hashicorp’s Terraform can be utilized to build any infrastructure; all it requires is a provider. Currently Terraform is available for integration into all the major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud and Alibaba Cloud). It is also available for on-prem environments with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.

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DevOps – The Infrastructure Revolution

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According to the good and the great, DevOps is the new reality for Operations. I mean everything is now virtual or encapsulated in light-weight containers. It is all about the App! In this article it is intended to have a brief look in to the rise of the movement that is now called DevOps, investigate where it came from, and where it is now and more importantly is it suitable for the future.

The DevOps Revolution

Big Dev, Little Ops

Today our view of DevOps is big DEV and little OPS, or to be more precise, people who have more a history of development than day to day operations, the focus is more on using code to deploy infrastructure, than using code to make day one and day two operations simpler. Focus has moved rapidly from making system administration simpler through orchestration and automation to the point where the concept of a virtual machine, container or application have been distilled down to several lines of code. Great examples of tools to help us do that are Terraform, PowerShell, Perl, Ansible, Chef and Puppet.

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Previously published on Amazic World.