Terraform Hybrid: Unifying Your Physical and Cloud Datacenters
summary
Wayfair builds a single CI/CD pipeline for Terraform that provisions bare‑metal servers, ESX/vCenter VMs and GCP instances from one codebase; Packer creates immutable images and Terraform providers automate storage (EMC ViPR), Foreman and Cisco networking. The pipeline auto-builds docs, runs tests, and publishes artifacts; physical server delivery drops from 14 days to 1 day, the cloud side stands up four full data‑centers, and the platform builds dozens of machines per week to absorb Cyber‑5 bursts. They also open‑source the viper provider and utils library.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and overview
- 2:27First steps with Terraform
- 6:05Cloud project progress
- 9:18On-prem automation with Terraform
- 13:57Unified Packer pipeline
- 15:42Hybrid infrastructure scaling
- 17:49Terraform code structure
- 20:18Automated deployment pipeline
- 21:19Future plans and open source
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