Consul-Terraform-Sync Part 4: Automating AWS tags management with the Consul Key Value Store

This is Part 4 of a whole series on Consul-Terraform-Sync, a pretty recent cool integration between Consul and Terraform. Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Building a Module Part 3: Enterprise Integration In this post, I will explore something that came out this week with v0.4 of CTS: an integration with the Consul Key/Value store. Consul […]

Consul-Terraform-Sync Part 3: Enterprise Integration

In Parts 1 and 2 of these series, I went through why and how you would use CTS. Now, let’s have a look at why and how we would run it with Terraform Cloud and Consul Enterprise. At time of writing, support for Terraform Cloud is beta (available with CTS 0.4beta) while support for Terraform […]

Consul-Terraform-Sync – Part 2: Building a Module

Now that we’ve established in Part 1 the concept and the use case of Consul-Terraform-Sync, let’s work out how to actually build a module. If you check out the Terraform Registry and search for NIA, you will see all the modules that have been built for this Network-Infrastructure-Automation framework and the supported vendors. What the […]

Consul-Terraform-Sync Part 1: Introduction

I have written over a dozen posts on Terraform in the past few years and I always find it interesting to hear more use cases for it. A new one I discovered since I joined HashiCorp is a really nice integration with another HashiCorp tool (Consul): Consul-Terraform-Sync. What’s cool about it is that it complements […]

Terraform and Spotify – Part 2 (how I got George Michael to shut up)

This is a follow-up to my first post on how leveraging Terraform with Spotify. I’m sure you have someone in your family or in your group of friends with terrible musical taste. I know I certainly had. When I was a kid, there would always be someone asking the DJ to play some terrible French […]

Terraform for Spotify

I recently discovered that a Terraform provider had recently been released for Spotify (see article). Being an avid music listener and a Terraform fan, I thought I’d give it a try. I followed the Spotify tutorial on HashiCorp Learn. It had a couple of minor issues – which have already been reported – but I […]

Goodbye VMware, Hello HashiCorp!

This is long overdue but in case you missed my announcements on LinkedIn and Twitter, I left VMware early August after a great 5.5 years there. This tweet thread should tell you how much I enjoyed my time and how much I value the things I learned and the people I met while at VMware. […]

Terraform Workspaces

In recent customer conversations, I’ve noticed that Terraform is being used not only more often but also by more teams within an organization. The teams could be: Network Compute Cloud Internet Security Firewall IP Address and DNS Management etc… Obviously, in smaller organizations, all these responsibilities might be within one or two teams but in […]

Learning Networking – A list of resources

A few months ago, I got a flattering comment from a colleague on Slack: Not only that reinforced my love of blogging but it made me think about how I would start learning networking today, especially given my colleague’s comment that followed: I started learning networking almost twenty years ago (yes, I know, I’m ancient) […]

NSX Advanced Firewall As Code with Terraform

Update 16th July: I have published this sample configuration as a Module here. A recent update to the Terraform provider for NSX-T has provided operators the ability to deploy next-generation firewalling policies and rules. I covered how to use the provider in previous posts but I stuck to the simple features we supported at the […]