Use Cases for Terraform

3 hr 12 min15 tutorials

Use Terraform to perform common operations with other technologies, including Consul, Vault, Packer, and Kubernetes.

Use Terraform to Register External Services

Codify Management of Vault

Use HashiCorp Terraform's Vault provider to codify Vault management to increase repeatability while reducing human errors.

8 minInteractive

Enterprise

Codify Management of Vault Enterprise

Use HashiCorp Terraform's Vault provider to codify Vault management to increase repeatability while reducing human errors.

14 minInteractive

AppRole With Terraform & Chef

This tutorial discusses the concepts necessary to help users understand Vault's AppRole authentication pattern and how to use it to securely introduce a Vault authentication token to a target server, application, or container.

19 min Video

Terraform Cloud

Deploy Consul and Vault on Kubernetes with Run Triggers

Deploy a Consul-backed Vault cluster on Kubernetes, by linking Terraform Cloud workspaces with run triggers. Share Kubernetes cluster credentials between workspaces within an organization using data resources.

14 minInteractive

Manage Kubernetes Resources via Terraform

Schedule a NGINX instance and expose it using the Terraform Kubernetes Provider. Configure the provider to access the cluster manually or based on kubectl context. Schedule and scale a deployment, and schedule a service.

12 min

Provision Infrastructure with Packer

Create an image with Packer, containing SSH keys, a new user, and a demo webapp, and deploy it with Terraform.

5 min

Automate Monitoring with the Terraform Datadog Provider

Create metrics and endpoint monitors for a pre-configured Kubernetes cluster with the Helm and Datadog Terraform providers.

11 minInteractive

Use Application Load Balancers for Blue-Green and Canary Deployments

Configure AWS application load balancers with Terraform to release an application in a rolling upgrade with near-zero downtime. In this tutorial, you will use a combination of blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments to incrementally promote a new application version via Terraform feature toggles.

18 min

Terraform Cloud

Deploy Infrastructure with the Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes

Use the Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes to manage the lifecycle of cloud and on-prem infrastructure through a single Kubernetes custom resource. Use the Operator to provision an AWS SQS message queue that an application needs before it is deployed to Kubernetes.

15 min

Manage VMs and Snapshots on vSphere

Adopt infrastructure as code best practices for on-premise or private cloud infrastructure. Create and load an Ubuntu image to vSphere using Packer. Then, provision and manage a vSphere virtual machine based on that template.

10 min

Deploy Applications with the Helm Provider

Create a Kubernetes cluster with Terraform. Use the Helm provider to deploy a cluster monitoring app called kubewatch, and integrate your alerts with a Slack bot.

9 min

Network Infrastructure Automation with Consul-Terraform-Sync Introduction

Automate updates to network infrastructure including dynamic load balancing and firewall rules with Consul-Terraform-Sync.

17 minInteractive

Consul-Terraform-Sync Run Modes and Status Inspection

Discover Consul-Terraform-Sync different run modes and inspect task execution status using REST API.

9 min

Host a Static Website with S3 and Cloudflare

Use Terraform to set up a static website using AWS S3 as an object store and Cloudflare for DNS, SSL and CDN. Create Cloudflare page rules to always redirect HTTPS and temporarily redirect certain paths. Alternatively, you can use ACM for SSL certificate management and Cloudfront for CDN.

17 min

Infrastructure

Security

Networking

Applications