hashicorp tools for the windows ecosystem
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HashiCorp Tools for the Windows Ecosystem
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Consultant at @ContinoHQ
The Developer Machine
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How is this solved ?• Golden images.
• Not refreshed regularly
• Designed by committee
• Doesn’t fit individual needs
• Requires someone spending a day or two to build.
• Every developer has special needs.
• Self built
• Not repeatable
• Time wasted, less productive
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Packer
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What does Packer look like?
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• Download Packer from https://www.packer.io/
• Clone https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows
• packer build windows_10.json
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Provisioning with Packer
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Packer does cloud too..
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Why Vagrant• Create lightweight (Windows weight ? )
environments
• Repeatable
• Share it
• Trash it
• Gateway to thinking about infrastructure as code
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vagrant up
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Provisioning with Vagrant
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Provisioning with Puppet and Chocolatey
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Do’s and Don’ts• Do script Vagrant with config management scripts
• Do have a Vagrant file per project
• Do use the same config management scripts as used for production services.
• Avoid provisioning heavyweight apps ( Visual Studio, SQL server) . Use Packer to build these instead.
• Encourage reuse within your organisation.
• Also see Boxen (https://github.com/boxen) and Boxstarter (http://boxstarter.org/)
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Terraform
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Why do I useTerraform ?• Tool for building, changing and versioning
infrastructure.
• Manages dependencies between infrastructure components.
• Share your infrastructure code.
• Use the same declarative language between different providers.
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With Powershell
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With Terraform
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Resources
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Resources and Modules
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Resources and Modules
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Do’s and Dont’s
• Do use CI pipeline to apply changes from the beginning of a project.
• Don’t use Terraform to provision applications. Use appropriate tooling for it. Puppet, Chef etc.
• Do use Terraform to provision the infrastructure so that other provisioners can run.
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Summary• Packer to build Vagrant boxes for virtualisation and
cloud images.
• Vagrant to spin up and share development environment setups.
• Terraform to simplify creating infrastructure and to version.
• All of these tools are automation friendly.
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Links
• Packer for Windows https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows
• Packer for Windows 2016 and Windows Containers https://github.com/StefanScherer/packer-windows
• Terraform Azure Provider https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/azurerm/index.html
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Fin
Questions ?
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