Case Study: Using terraform and packer to deploy go applications to AWS
This talk describes some of the challenges faced by platform teams transitioning from traditional operations tools and practices to a PaaS model for infrastructure and application management. ASICS Corporation's transition toward a PaaS model is introduced to provide context for a real-world case study of how terraform and packer are being used and interim platform management tools on the way to a full-blown PaaS.
Outline/Structure of the Case Study
- Problem context – road to PaaS
- ASICS starting point: bare metal servers in CoLo facility
- target end state: PaaS
- Steps to get from bare metal to PaaS
- Case study – deploy and manage golang application in AWS
- terraform: Infrastructure as Code
- golang application: Cloud native app
- packer: CI deployment tool
Learning Outcome
- insight into how large corporations are approaching platform operations problems
- understanding of basic AWS network and security architecture considerations
- basic familiarity with features of terraform and packer and their platform automation capabilities
Target Audience
Platform Architects, SRE's, DevOps engineers
Yasunobu Kawaguchi
