Automate your Tailscale cloud deployments with Terraform | Infrastructure as Code Series Part 2

In today's video Alex walks you through the process of automating the deployment of a Digitalocean droplet cloud instance with Terraform, and pre-configuring it to be a tailnet node using cloud-init.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Start
01:57 - Terraform code overview
07:05 - Token generation
09:34 - Verify the deployment
11:53 - doctl tips

[Bitnative]

I am really enjoying your series and looking forward to part 3 for Ansible. I have time invested in Ansible and want to expand my capabilities. Terraform can't be ignored, but given the rate of new tech stacks and platform services, I can only afford to add it to the queue for future focus. My priority for now is tailscale and increasing it's use with kubernetes. I appreciate your work on this series. 👍

[roberttmorgan]

Excellent coverage as always, thank you Alex! From the excellent Tailscale docs, your professional presentation, to the practical examples these are among the very best videos out there! I look forward to ansible next.

[derekbelrose]

Alex, Terraform has a Digital Ocean data source for SSH keys that would hook into the same system that `doctl compute ssh-keys` does but returns it as a list for Terraform resources. It's a good way to cut down on input variables and still lean on the niceties of the infrastructure provider.

[fafilingdo]

What's that editor you are using?

[gowthamgts]

what's the camera you're using man. it's so good.

[mackrevinack]

you are a wizzard, but you dont wear wizzard's clothes? interesting