VC's on Line 1 - Scaling under pressure with Terraform, Packer, and Chef

This is the story of a company that had 10s of customers and were facing severe scaling issues. They approached us. They had a good product predicting a few hundred customers within 6 months. VCs went to them. Infrastructure scaling was the only unknown; funding for software-defined data centers. Opex Software introduced Terraform for infrastructure creation, Chef for OS hardening, and then Packer for supporting AWS as well as VSphere. Then, after a few more weeks, when there was a need for faster response from the data center, they went into Serf to immediately trigger chef-clients and then to Consul for service monitoring.

Finally, they did the same exact thing in at a Fortune 500 customer to replace 15 year-old scripts. They also cover sleek ways of dealing with provisioning in different Availability Zones across various AWS regions with Terraform.

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Sanju Burkule, founder of Opex Software, believes in creating time by automating everything. Opex is geared towards catering to the niche market of DevOps and clean cloud integration development solutions. Our high quality DevOps accelerator products like TestNow speed up DevOps adoption significantly.

Sanju loves to play Age of Empires that helps to clearly see the impact of research & automation empowering nations.

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This is the story of a company that had 10s of customers and were facing severe scaling issues. They approached us. They had a good product predicting a few hundred customers within 6 months. VCs went to them. Infrastructure scaling was the only unknown; funding for software-defined data centers. We introduced Terraform for infrastructure creation, Chef for OS hardening, and then Packer for supporting AWS as well as VSphere. Then, after a few more weeks, when there was a need for faster response from the data center, we went into Serf to immediately trigger chef-clients and then to Consul for service monitoring.

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Finally, we did the same exact thing in at a Fortune 500 customer to replace 15 year-old scripts. We will also cover sleek ways of dealing with provisioning in different Availability Zones across various AWS regions with Terraform. --

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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