Lightboard Lessons: Zero Touch Application Deployments with Terraform, Consul, and AS3

[JRahm]

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)

[Runo_Førrisdah1]

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

[Eric_Chen]

 a good suggestion on how to improve the demo. Thank you for your feedback.