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 […]

Fling Update: EasyAvi v2.0

Since we launched our EasyAvi Fling (formally known as Easy Deploy for NSX Advanced Load Balancing), we’ve had a lot of feedback from external and internal users. Most of the feedback was very positive on the tool but some users also ran into a number of minor bugs or missing features. The workflow could also […]

Terraform NSX-T in VMC – NSX Manager Private IP support

I recently had a requirement where a customer needed to access the VMware Cloud on AWS NSX-T manager directly. By default, any APIs calls relating to Network and Security on VMC on AWS have to be targeted to the NSX-T Reverse Proxy and not directly to the NSX-T platform. The Reverse Proxy is public-facing and […]

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – Walkthrough and Integration with the SDDC Import/Export Fling

Disaster Recovery is a topic that comes up in most of my interactions with customers. In my 3+ years in the VMware Cloud team, my general observations are: Some customers’ DR strategy is limited to copying data to offsite tapes… but most large enterprise customers I talk to have a secondary or tertiary site they […]

Extending Terraform – A Deep Dive

As I was becoming familiar with Terraform and all the clouds it could automate, I started to realize there were things it couldn’t interact with. Even within VMware, while we have a number of providers for services and products like NSX-T, vSphere, VMware Cloud, vCloud Director or vRealize Automation, there are still many products that […]