CDK for Terraform: Deploying Infrastructure Resources Using Imperative Programming Languages

Currently the infrastructure as code landscape is dominated by declarative approaches such as Terraform, ARM Templates, or CloudFormation, which rely on configurations in JSON, YAML or HCL. While these are excellent formats for defining the desired end state, the user experience during implementation sometimes falls short of what today's developers prefer.

The Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for Terraform opens up new horizons in daily work with Terraform. It combines the advantages of programming languages ​​such as TypeScript, Python, C#, and Java with the mature, open ecosystem of HashiCorp Terraform.

Using an Azure sample application, this talk will explore the possibilities that the Terraform CDK already offers today and discuss why it makes sense to consider cloud infrastructure deployments a part of classic software engineering.

Speaker: Torsten Stiller

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HashiCorp is the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software. The HashiCorp software suite enables organizations to adopt consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. HashiCorp open source tools Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Boundary, and Waypoint are downloaded tens of millions of times each year and are broadly adopted by the Global 2000. Enterprise versions of these products enhance the open source tools with features that promote collaboration, operations, governance, and multi-data center functionality.

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