Jumpboxes at Easy: How Terraform and Packer Enable the Easy Creation of Secure Jumpboxes

In this talk, HUG community member and Microsoft engineer Diego Casati shows us how to automate the creation of Jumpboxes, which are machines on a network used to access and manage devices in a separate security zone. Typically they are used to manage hosts in a DMZ from trusted networks or computers.

The key to making this automation and customization process easy, is HashiCorp Terraform and Packer. The session will also include tips for creating more advanced solutions with the use of Yubikeys to connect to the virtual machines.

This talk was part of the first HashiTalks online event—A 24-hour continuous series of presentations from the worldwide HashiCorp User Group (HUG) community and from HashiCorp engineers as well. The event took place from February 21-22, 2019.

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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