From Provisioning to Production

In this workshop, Taylor Dolezal (Developer Advocate at HashiCorp), and I look at how to use Terraform to set up a Kubernetes Cluster on GCP and monitor it, using Datadog.

This version of the workshop was given at Dash by Datadog in August 2020.

Transcript

2. Copyright © 2020 HashiCorp From Provisioning to Production Automating Observability Principles with Terraform
3. Kerim Satirli (He/Him) Developer Advocate at HashiCorp
4. Taylor Dolezal (He/Him) Developer Advocate at HashiCorp
5. Introduction to Terraform
6. Infrastructure as Code ▪ executable documentation ▪ enables collaboration ▪ safe and predictable
7. Terraform 135+ Official Providers AWS, GCP, Datadog, etc. 200+ Community Providers 1Password, Stripe, Unifi, etc.
8. HashiCorp Configuration Language CODE EDITOR service "http" "web_proxy" { listen_addr = "127.0.0.1:8080" process "server" { command = ["proxy-app", "server"] } } variable "port" { description = "Port for web_proxy" default = 8080 }
9. Kubernetes Namespaces everything has a home Services exposes Deployments Deployments declarative updates Nodes machines
14. Workshop ▪ labs.datadoghq.com – code "has12"