Simultaneously Deploying Infrastructure across the Globe

In this demo, I show how to deploy a single code-base across all available AWS Regions using HashiCorp Terraform Cloud and the AWS and AWSCC Providers for Terraform.

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Companion Code: github.com/ksatirli/deploying-across-the-globe

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1. re:Invent 2022 Simultaneously Deploying Infrastructure across the Globe.
3. Provision multiple regions without region-specific code.
4. 01 All Availability Zones, None of the paper-cuts Geography
5. AWS Regions
6. Terraform Concepts CODE EDITOR # EC2 Instance for order processing resource "aws_instance" "order_processing" { ami = var.ami_ids["orders"] instance_type = "m5.large" !!" }
7. Terraform Concepts CODE EDITOR # get list of all opted-in AWS Regions data "aws_regions" "available" { all_regions = true filter { name = "opt-in-status" values = ["opted-in"] } }
8. Terraform Concepts TERMINAL ~ >_ echo "data.aws_regions.available" | terraform console { "all_regions" = tobool(null) "filter" = toset([]) "id" = "aws" "names" = toset([ "eu-central-1", "eu-central-2", "us-east-1", "us-east-2", "us-west-1", "us-west-2", ]) }
9. 02 Global Infrastructure, Local Isolation Workspace Seeding
10. Terraform Cloud Workspaces CODE EDITOR # create a Terraform Cloud Workspace for each AWS Region resource "tfe_workspace" "regions" { for_each = toset(data.aws_regions.available.names) name = each.key description = "Regional Workspace for `${each.key}`." tag_names = [ "regional", ] vcs_repo { identifier = "ksatirli/regional-deployment-example" branch = "main" oauth_token_id = data.tfe_oauth_client.client.oauth_token_id } }
11. Terraform Cloud Workspaces CODE EDITOR # create a Terraform Cloud Workspace for each AWS Region resource "tfe_workspace" "regions" { for_each = toset(data.aws_regions.available.names) !!" terraform_version = var.terraform_version !!" }
12. Regional Terraform Cloud Workspaces app.terraform.io/app/ksatirli/workspaces
13. Regional Terraform Cloud Workspaces app.terraform.io/app/ksatirli/workspaces
14. Regional Terraform Cloud Workspaces app.terraform.io/app/ksatirli/workspaces
15. 03 Single Code-base, Regional Impact. Single
16. Regional Terraform Cloud Workspace app.terraform.io/app/ksatirli/workspaces/aws-ap-northeast-1
17. Regional Terraform Cloud Workspace app.terraform.io/app/ksatirli/workspaces/aws-ap-northeast-1
18. Regional Terraform Cloud Workspace app.terraform.io/app/ksatirli/workspaces/aws-ap-northeast-1
19. Regional Terraform Cloud Workspace app.terraform.io/app/ksatirli/workspaces/aws-ap-northeast-1
20. Regional Terraform Cloud Workspace app.terraform.io/app/ksatirli/workspaces/aws-ap-northeast-1
21. Regional Terraform Cloud Workspace aws-ap-northeast-1-ueco.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
22. Sr. Developer Advocate II at HashiCorp he / him @ksatirli Kerim Satirli
23. Thank You