Mastering Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
Infrastructure-as-Code allows you to create consistent, durable, codified environments the same way you make durable and consistent applications. Once the code is in place, you can efficiently spin up another environment that is identical in every way. And when a change occurs, the same code updates the next system identically and consistently.
In this workshop we look at Terraform, the most popular Infrastructure-as-code platform. We'll use AWS as a target environment, and deploy sample infrastructure. We'll deploy:
- DynamoDB database
- Lambda code function
- API Gateway
- A container running in Fargate ECS
- An Application Load Balancer (ALB)
- All the necessary configuration for every piece
- Roles, policies, and permissions for each
Along the way we'll learn:
- The value of Infrastructure as Code
- The pain of Click-ops
- Terraform syntax and popular commands
- How to run Terraform in a DevOps pipeline
Terraform is definitely an investment, but it's an investment that pays you back every time you need to make a change to any environment or recover from disaster. You can get started or level-up with Terraform on AWS today.
For this workshop you'll need:
- Install and update Terraform
- Install and update the AWS CLI
- An AWS account with root access
- Optional: Node.js
- Optional: Docker Desktop or another OCI build environment
Rob Richardson
robrich.org
Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on Mastodon at @robrich@hachyderm.io.
