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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 tha
by lkrubner 8y ago
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-gamble-which-we-will-regret http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/docker-is-a-dangerous...
- aklemm 8y agoI'd like to know more about this.
- jen20 8y agoIf 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZRa0lLq8OU [2]: https://github.com/jen20/hashidays-nyc https://github.com/jen20/hashidays-nyc (edited to change "best-practice" to "good-practice", since it's more accurate...)
- gfodor 8y agoyou should checkout habitat https://habitat.sh 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)