HashiCorp Tools for Windows

An overview of why you should use Packer, Terraform and Vagrant in a Windows Ecosystem.

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1. HashiCorp Tools for the
   Windows Ecosystem
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2. The Developer
   Machine
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4. How is this solved ?
   • Golden images.
   • Not refreshed regularly
   • Designed by committee
   • Doesn’t fit individual needs
   • Requires someone spending a day or two to build.
   • Every developer has special needs.
   • Self built
   • Not repeatable
   • Time wasted, less productive
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5. Packer
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6. What does Packer look like?
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7. • Download Packer from https://www.packer.io/
   • Clone https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-
   windows
   • packer build windows_10.json
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8. Provisioning with Packer
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9. Packer does cloud too..
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11. Why Vagrant
    • Create lightweight (Windows weight ? )
    environments
    • Repeatable
    • Share it
    • Trash it
    • Gateway to thinking about infrastructure as code
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12. vagrant up
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13. Provisioning with Vagrant
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14. Provisioning with Puppet
    and Chocolatey
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15. Do’s and Don’ts
    • Do script Vagrant with config management scripts
    • Do have a Vagrant file per project
    • Do use the same config management scripts as used for
    production services.
    • Avoid provisioning heavyweight apps ( Visual Studio, SQL
    server) . Use Packer to build these instead.
    • Encourage reuse within your organisation.
    • Also see Boxen (https://github.com/boxen) and Boxstarter
    (http://boxstarter.org/)
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16. Terraform
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17. Why do I useTerraform ?
    • Tool for building, changing and versioning
    infrastructure.
    • Manages dependencies between infrastructure
    components.
    • Share your infrastructure code.
    • Use the same declarative language between
    different providers.
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18. With Powershell
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19. With Terraform
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21. Resources
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22. Resources and Modules
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23. Resources and Modules
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24. Do’s and Dont’s
    • Do use CI pipeline to apply changes from the
    beginning of a project.
    • Don’t use Terraform to provision applications. Use
    appropriate tooling for it. Puppet, Chef etc.
    • Do use Terraform to provision the infrastructure so
    that other provisioners can run.
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25. Summary
    • Packer to build Vagrant boxes for virtualisation and
    cloud images.
    • Vagrant to spin up and share development
    environment setups.
    • Terraform to simplify creating infrastructure and to
    version.
    • All of these tools are automation friendly.
    • Add automation tactically
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26. Links
    • Packer for Windows https://github.com/
    joefitzgerald/packer-windows
    • Packer for Windows 2016 and Windows Containers
    https://github.com/StefanScherer/packer-windows
    • Terraform Azure Provider https://www.terraform.io/
    docs/providers/azurerm/index.html
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27. Fin
    Questions ?
    hibri.marzook@contino.io
    twitter @hibri
    http://www.hibri.net
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