Understanding Infrastructure as Code

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Post by widdix » Sat, Oct 10, 2015, 12:15 AM UTC

Understanding Infrastructure as Code
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Re: Understanding Infrastructure as Code

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Post by lwander » Sat, Oct 10, 2015, 1:27 AM UTC

[Terraform](https://terraform.io/) is a great tool for representing infrastructure as code, plus, it's provider agnostic.

Re: Understanding Infrastructure as Code

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Post by mentat » Sat, Oct 10, 2015, 1:54 AM UTC

Luckily AWS already has CloudFormation is their closing? There's no content here.

Re: Understanding Infrastructure as Code

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Post by zb » Sat, Oct 10, 2015, 2:52 AM UTC

The translation into a linear flow of commands is an oversimplification - it assumes that the graph is a specific type of tree, when in fact any directed acyclic graph is valid.

Also, I personally find it way more interesting what happens when you update existing infrastructure, not just deploy new infrastructure, with an arbitrary dependency graph. But probably that's just me.

Shameless plug: you don't have to use a proprietary cloud! OpenStack provides the same thing via the Heat project.

Re: Understanding Infrastructure as Code

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Post by ckv428 » Sun, Oct 11, 2015, 7:22 AM UTC

just use ansible