Use Cases for Terraform

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

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16 tutorials

25min
Deploy federated multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters
Use Terraform to provision Kubernetes clusters in the Azure and AWS clouds, deploy Consul Helm charts enabling Consul federation, and deploy an example application on both clusters.
- Consul
- Terraform
10min
Codify management of Vault using Terraform
Use HashiCorp Terraform's Vault provider to codify Vault management to increase repeatability while reducing human errors.
- Terraform
- Vault
- Interactive
16min
Codify management of Vault Enterprise using Terraform
Use HashiCorp Terraform's Vault provider to codify Vault management to increase repeatability while reducing human errors.
- Terraform
- Vault
20min
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.
- Terraform
- Vault
- Video
11min
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.
- Consul
- Vault
- Terraform
30min
Automate your network configuration with Consul-Terraform-Sync
Automate updates to firewall rules in network infrastructure with Consul-Terraform-Sync.
- Terraform
- Consul
9min
Consul-Terraform-Sync run modes and status inspection
Discover Consul-Terraform-Sync different run modes and inspect task execution status using REST API.
- Terraform
- Consul
14min
Use Terraform to register external services
Register external services with Consul using the Terraform Consul provider.
- Terraform
- Consul
5min
Provision infrastructure with Packer
Create an image with Packer, containing SSH keys, a new user, and a demo webapp, and deploy it with Terraform.
- Packer
- Terraform
13min
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.
- Packer
- Terraform
15min
Deploy infrastructure with the Terraform Cloud Kubernetes Operator v1
Use the Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes to manage the lifecycle of cloud and on-prem infrastructure through a single Kubernetes custom resource. Provision an AWS SQS message queue as a prerequisite for an application on Kubernetes.
- Terraform
22min
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.
- Terraform
8min
Deploy applications with the Helm provider
Create a Kubernetes cluster with Terraform. Use the Helm provider to deploy the nginx webserver to your cluster.
- Terraform
12min
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.
- Terraform
19min
Use Application Load Balancers for blue-green and canary deployments
Configure AWS application load balancers to release an application in a rolling upgrade with near-zero downtime. Incrementally promote a new canary application version to production by building a feature toggle with Terraform.
- Terraform
19min
Host a static website with S3 and Cloudflare
Set up an S3-hosted static website with Cloudflare for DNS, TLS, and CDN. Redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS, and redirect certain paths with Cloudflare page rules. Alternatively, use ACM for TLS certificate management and Cloudfront for CDN.
- Terraform