Terraform has forever changed the way I deploy code

Never deploy code manually again.

Terraform has probably had one of the biggest impacts to the way I deploy code, and whilst it's not my favorite piece of tooling for performing IaC, it's perhaps the piece that is still the most ubiquitous.

In this video, we take a brief look at Infrastructure as Code, and why it's useful, as well as deploying a project to AWS using terraform.

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00:00 Intro
01:13 Terraform and IaC
03:33 Setup
05:40 Terraform basics
08:58 Project Overview
10:43 S3 Bucket
12:05 SQS Queue
13:05 Lambda
17:07 Testing Deployment
18:33 Cleanup (Important!)
18:46 Outro

[mambusskruj]

Love the way you make videos. Aesthetic, simplicity and helpfulness. All the time I stay away from video tutors because of how boring these are. But I really like to watch your content.

[v.]

I'm a junior and you're teaching me what I have struggled to learn for almost a year now (and nobody had the patience to explain so far)... thank you SO much

[wralith]

Your videos keeps getting better and better, it was joy to watch, thanks!

[pangloss]

After a few years of working with TF, I’ve found it to be a great, but limited product. It’s well suited to configuration management, but not application development imo. With serverless stacks (as you showed in this vid) it starts to fall apart when you need to build your code bundles for lambda, as well as when you want to implement common deployment strategies like feature branches. I’ve been working with Pulumi for the last two years and have found that it takes the best elements of terraform (it’s providers) and let’s you create really nice build, test and deploy abstractions. AWS CDK is great, but obviously limited to AWS, which can be limiting if for example you want to deploy a db on another provider and monitors on another again. Pulumi is basically general purpose language terraform (compared to HCL) that gives you some really ergonomic developer experiences, whilst still being declarative, though frustratingly it’s not available in Rust…yet.

[jaredharp]

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[iantimmis]

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[BillLambert]

If you're a developer who does *everything* through automation, Terraform can be great, but if you're a sysadmin who has to clean up after developers' messes, Terraform quickly becomes the bane of your existence. It is very powerful but also very blunt. Trying to apply (or import) small incremental changes to your environment can quickly spiral out of control.

[asencme]

Been using Terraform at my job for more than a year and I'm really happy with it.

[allroni]

Thank you for putting out such high quality content! Your presentation is great and your tutorials are on point!

[Avlec]

This video really stands out, it is packed full of useful information. Using a practical example of how to stand up IAC fits well with how I learn. I'm curious to know how you added the animations into the video?
Thanks for putting this super helpful content up.

[orterves]

Even when the resources like IAM users are first created manually, it can be a good idea to import the resources into the Terraform

Also bootstrapping with an admin user to create Terraform IAM user+minimal policies required to run the Terraform, then using those minimal credentials for subsequent runs, can be a good approach

[_billiam_]

Awesome video. I would love to see a video on Pulumi. Keep up the great work.

[wtcxdm]

I love the keeping hydrated part. As long as you are not deploying RDS or things that take ages....

[igniteflow]

So clear, concise and insightful. Thank you 👏

[cherkim]

Superb video once more! Thanks kind sir

[lifehunt]

Would love someone to make these kind of videos for rest of the hashicorp products, especially nomad

[Antonio-yyec]

Brilliant, just what I needed for my new project. Thanks for sharing!!

[typecraft_dev]

Amazing video! Terraform was always a black box to me. This broke things down nicely

[asta]

out of curiosity
how many ads are there in the video !!

Nicely done
Clear !

[claudioperroni]

I would like to thank you for providing such a simple and understandable tutorial for this topic.