LISA18

​​​​The days of handcrafted systems, services and infrastructure are over - it's the era of Infrastructure As Code.


We write code for orchestration tools to run configuration management systems to ensure that individual applications systems are easily reproducible. We write test suites to verify the behaviour of those applications.


In the same way, with HashiCorp's Terraform, we can write code to provision backend infrastructure such as instances, networks, storage, databases and ancillary services such as load balancers/proxies, DNS, TLS termination and more. And then reproduce the whole thing in multiple environments on many platforms including AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, GCP for testing, development and deployment.


This introduction to Terraform will show how to declaratively build and modify your infrastructure with code that can be versioned, tested and deployed with the rigour of modern release engineering, all the way to Continuous Integration and Deployment.