Insightful case-study sessions were plentiful at this year’s HashiTalks. Check them out in these user-story video highlights from the virtual conference.
In our first two HashiTalks 2022 blogs, we spotlighted talks on observability, Consul-Terraform-Sync, HashiCorp Nomad experimentation, and Kubernetes integrations. Today we’re highlighting talks focused on real-world use case stories from a variety of industries using many HashiCorp products.
Brett Tegart and Itay Cohai recount how their team at Morgan Stanley implemented secure Terraform modules that enforce cloud security controls by default, allowing free development of cloud service provider accounts and resources without requiring additional security review. Sentinel policy as code was the key. They wrote policies that blocked direct creation of Terraform resources, limiting users to the secure modules that derive values from the Terraform or CSP environment instead of allowing user input.
Joe Bell shares a retrospective from Twitter where engineers were forced to import thousands of resources into Terraform. Luckily they were able to do this quickly and safely with Sentinel and a few other open source tools. Hear their story and learn how you can avoid this kind of mess in the first place.
Ryler Hockenbury describes the replatforming effort at Mastercard Data and Services and how the company adopted HashiCorp Terraform, Packer, and Vault. Learn about the changes in mindset and processes needed for the adoption to be fully impactful across the entire organization.
Sanjay Narendran tells the story of how Sunrise Banks used a symmetrical architecture pattern with Terraform Cloud to construct a globally scalable cloud presence on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Symmetrical architecture involves creating mirror images of VNets/VPCs and subnets across global datacenters and identifying persistent structures from ephemeral assets during Day 0 deployment. See how this allowed Terraform Cloud to rapidly provision symmetrical copies of the bank’s datacenter across the globe and across clouds.
Brad McCoy shows how he built a DevOps Dojo at several companies to adopt Terraform and bring deployment times down from six weeks to one hour, improving infrastructure security. He also shows you how you can build an educational Dojo at your own organization.
Martin Smith and Michael Main reveal how we built our incident management program for the HashiCorp Cloud Platform. Learn how HashiCorp’s cloud SREs worked with engineering teams to orchestrate this process and see what they think the future holds for incident management at HashiCorp.
Ivan Zupanicic shares Bloom & Wild’s journey to break up its monolith into microservices. Hear how the flower company’s platform team leveraged Terraform, Terraform Cloud, and GitHub Actions to build a framework that allowed the development team to spin up new microservices in a matter of minutes.
We’ve already posted HashiTalks 2022 highlight blogs covering Nomad explorations, observability, Consul-Terraform-Sync, and Kubernetes integration. In the coming weeks, we plan to post highlight roundup blogs for many other HashiTalk sessions, covering topics including Terraform tips and strategies, Terraform CI/CD, image pipelines, and helpful Vault and Boundary techniques.
How one technologist’s Terraform certification journey helped him refresh his career as a practitioner after being a CTO at a small firm.
HCP Vault Radar, HashiCorp’s new SaaS-based secret scanning and discovery product is now prepared for production workloads.
Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes adds more Day 2 operations. Users can now start runs using workspace resource annotations.