Managing training instances in the cloud

Cloud automation is important. When we have a need for a training instance, we use terraform for VM provisioning. But: each setup has slight differences (SW Versions, Number of VMs needed, ...) We decided to build the terraform code as abstract as possible and use a per setup data based approach to provide information on numbers of VMs and deployment order. All data are then used in combination with terraform and Puppet Bolt.

Cloud automation is important. When we have a need for a training instance, we use terraform for VM provisioning.

But: each setup has slight differences (SW Versions, Number of VMs needed, ...)

We decided to build the terraform code as abstract as possible and use a per setup data based approach to provide information on numbers of VMs and deployment order.

All data are then used in combination with terraform and Puppet Bolt.