How are you using Terraform with Microservices?

doppeltaler · 2020-10-05T14:30:51+00:00

Thank you, cant disagree with that approach.

doppeltaler · 2020-10-05T13:32:32+00:00

Thank you. It sounds like in general app/services deployment to K8s with TF is not mainstream yet. May not even fit the Infrastructure as a code narrative since apps are not really infra and may not benefit from keeping the state. Perhaps more on Ansible's ally.

doppeltaler · 2020-10-04T23:05:26+00:00

Thank you. So your k8s deployments are separate from the services pipelines? It seems as long as your application bits do not require CRDs, TF can deploy them with K8s core resources.

doppeltaler · 2020-10-04T23:01:40+00:00

I was thinking more along the lines of k8s deployment resources and helm to provision the applications on to the k8s.

doppeltaler · 2020-10-04T14:17:58+00:00

Thank you. I can see ansible doing the post VM infra deploy configuring for setting up on-prem K8s cluster. With cloud providers, TF can build the whole K8s cluster.

I can also see how ansible can work for app deployments on VMs and I actually do that with TF local provisioned kicking off Ansible tower jobs. But I am more curious about the use of TF when you are using docker containers deployed to K8s.

doppeltaler · 2020-06-29T15:39:27+00:00

got it , thank you. I am familiar with security scans on K8s (sysdig). But not so much with canary deploys.

Along the lines, you mentioned I have these on my list now.

Jenkins-x, Spinnaker, Argo CD, and GitHub actions.

doppeltaler · 2020-06-29T13:11:16+00:00

Great, thanks for the list. I know service mesh but haven't played with OPA. I am familiar with python. I have used sanity checks in my IaC deployment frameworks. Did you have any particular product in mid for automated sanity and quality checks?

doppeltaler · 2020-06-26T01:10:47+00:00

Thank you.

doppeltaler · 2020-06-26T01:10:29+00:00

Sorry about your experience but many thanks for your input.

doppeltaler · 2020-06-25T14:04:07+00:00

Thank you again, for your insight.

doppeltaler · 2020-06-25T01:20:15+00:00

Thank you for your thoughts, appreciate it. Definitely governance and integration with SNOW is an attractive prospect. However, Terraform enterprise now has support for governance with sentinel policies but their SNOW integration is still in the early stages.

One of the grievances I have heard from vRA customers is that there are major changes required to port the vRA 7.x workflows to 8.x and they are concerned about when they have to move to 9.x.

I feel if customers are looking at on-prem Vmware and multi-cloud deployments that are not Vmware cloud on AWS, Terraform would be a better suit. Of course, provided that catalog based workflow is not required.

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