Demo

Using Terraform and Consul to delegate service deployment to service teams

James Nugent, formerly a HashiCorp engineer, discusses Terraform—a tool for managing infrastructure as code—and Consul, a tool for service discovery, health checking, and key-value storage.

Speakers

  • James Nugent
    James NugentCo-Founder, Event Store Ltd.

In this demo-led talk, James Nugent explains how Terraform and Consul help organizations implement service-oriented architectures, and adopt a DevOps philosophy.

Highlights

  • Introduction to Terraform and Consul
  • How infrastructure as code makes multi-cloud easy
  • Layered Terraform configurations
  • Autonomous deployment
  • Service instances self-bootstrapping into Consul
  • Health checking
  • Building common HA patterns with Consul

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