Fireside Chat With Wayfair and Armon Dadgar
summary
Wayfair moves from three physical data centers to Google Cloud, using Terraform, Vault, Consul and Packer to solve elastic scaling for Way Day traffic and large image workloads. A unified Terraform pipeline with custom providers routes the same HCL/API to on‑prem or GCP. Open‑source Vault and Terraform hit replication and operational limits, prompting adoption of Vault Enterprise and Terraform Enterprise to get reliable replication, APIs and faster provisioning. Internal PaaS (Backstage UI + Go middleware) talks to Terraform Enterprise and GCP, connecting Kubernetes, Kafka and Aerospike to speed 2,000 developers.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:02Wayfair team introductions
- 1:43Wayfair’s infrastructure in 2015
- 2:45Wayfair’s business and scale
- 3:26Cloud adoption drivers
- 5:13Terraform’s role in cloud adoption
- 6:59Vault’s secrets management need
- 8:21Unifying on-prem and cloud pipelines
- 10:05Scaling engineering to 2000 developers
- 11:52Transition to Vault Enterprise
- 13:15Terraform Enterprise adoption
- 15:40Vault use cases beyond secrets
- 17:49Wayfair’s future cloud goals
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