Steep Approach: Landing Safely in GCP With TFE
summary
Deutsche Bank uses Terraform Enterprise (after a Terraform Cloud pilot) to gate and automate GCP provisioning with a private module registry and a module‑ and policy‑authoring pipeline; teams get guarded autonomy while security enforces standards via Sentinel. Platform ships an initial landing zone in six months, records ~250,000 runs and enforces 350 Sentinel policies, and now operates 200+ landing zones with 200 application teams successfully deploying into GCP.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and team background
- 1:48Journey from zero to cloud
- 6:00Core principles for cloud adoption
- 10:14Landing zone concept explained
- 13:07Build vs buy decision for tooling
- 19:22Terraform Cloud pilot launch
- 21:48Networking challenges and solutions
- 23:36Transition to Terraform Enterprise
- 24:59Current state and growth metrics
- 26:23Key takeaways and success summary
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