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0 pointslkrubner7y ago0 comments

Terraform and Packer are the new way to automate devops. It’s a very powerful approach. And the ease of setting up traditional VMs struck me as much simpler than using Docker. When I wrote “Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret” I was thinking about Tereaform as the counterfactual:

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/docker-is-a-dangerous...

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aklemm7y ago· 1 in thread

I'd like to know more about this.

jen207y ago

If you're interested in a "good-practice" type introduction to use of Packer and Terraform together, you may be interested in a talk [1] (or the accompanying repo [2]) I gave at HashiDays New York last year.

Unfortunately I never finished getting everything I was aiming to done in that repo, but may come back to it and update it at some point...

Disclaimer: I used to work at HashiCorp on both Terraform and Packer.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZRa0lLq8OU [2]: https://github.com/jen20/hashidays-nyc

(edited to change "best-practice" to "good-practice", since it's more accurate...)

gfodor7y ago

you should checkout habitat https://habitat.sh

with habitat you now have the reproducibility and isolation of containers without being forced to use them. (also supervising and config management)

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