Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Terraform and Indeed's Move to AWS
summary
Indeed changes a planned 3–5 year AWS migration into a 6–8 months emergency after the 2021 Texas outages and uses Terraform Enterprise as the central engine; hundreds of teams and 500+ people in daily channels adopt self-service workspaces (TFE provider + YAML), standardized modules via the TFE module registry, GitLab CI and TerraGrant for special cases, and automated credential handling with Vault integration; critical cutover finishes about a month after the target and yields metrics-driven followup work.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:26The migration to AWS
- 4:32Building the platform guild
- 6:09Workspace management
- 9:00Costs and credentials
- 10:45Communication strategy
- 13:38Standardization
- 16:20Governance and compliance
- 17:45Using metrics for success
- 19:52Common pitfalls to avoid
- 25:25Conclusion
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