Production-Ready Infrastructure + DevOps Workflows in 5 Minutes with Terraform + GitLab
summary
Claim: GitLab CI/CD plus Terraform provisions a production-ready web stack in under five minutes and the demo shows it working end-to-end for a Rails app. Pipeline runs three stages: build, provision, deploy (optional manual destroy). Terraform creates per-branch stateful environments with VPC, EC2 front end, RDS Postgres with daily backups, ElastiCache Redis, S3, SES, certbot SSL and automated DB migrations. Terraform state is managed per-environment in GitLab repo; alternative integration via Terraform Cloud is available. 5-minute production is implemented as a reusable GitLab CI template.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction and overview
- 6:57How it works explained
- 17:36Build and provision steps
- 23:43Deployment process details
- 29:45Summary and next steps
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