Lightboard Lessons: Zero Touch Application Deployments with Terraform, Consul, and AS3
In this lightboard lesson, I show how you can move from the manual work of traditional app deployments to the automated goodness of zero touch app deployments!
This demo solution was shown in a Hashicorp webinar featuring our own Eric Chen, and utilizes Hashicorp's Terraform and Consul applications, as well as the AS3 component of the F5 Automation Toolchain.
Resources
- This demo in detail
- F5 Terraform automation lab (hosted by WWT, registration required)
- F5 Resources for Terraform
- Hands-on Intro to Infrastructure as Code Using Terraform
- Ready to go! Deploying F5 Infrastructure Using Terraform
- F5 and Hashicorp Essentials (article series on Terraform, Consul, and Vault)
Published Nov 11, 2020
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a good suggestion on how to improve the demo. Thank you for your feedback.
Runo_Førrisdah1Nimbostratus
First I always enjoy your Lightboard Lessons!
Even before CVE-2020-5902 exposing mgmt to the Internet was a bad idea. It's much here I don't understand.
OK, so it's only a DEMO to show case the products. Still I think it would just be a small bump in the road to
include the VPN access in the Terraform setup. AWS provides OpenVPN - that would secure
access(encrypt and reduce exposure) to any MGMT service. It would add more cost for sure - still I think
it would be worth it.
With Route domains added that would enable one to seperate Service and MGMT traffic. It would still be
a one interface service - since you can't really remove the dedicated MGMT interface .
My $0.05 cents.
Runo Førrisdahl
