Episode Followup – Terraform: Stand up test environments freaky fast!

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In this episode of the vBrownBag, Shala demonstrates how & why she uses Hashicorp Terraform (for her day job!) to stand up proof of concept tests on AWS far faster than what is possible in the console.

  • 00:00 Intro

1:37 Shala walks us through her GitLab repo 💪

5:23 We’re discussing DevOps, y’all

  • 10:52 Shala explains why she started using Terraform for proof of concept testing
  • 13:00 Using Terraform to create AWS CloudWatch alerts
  • 19:30 Creating specific error types in AWS CloudWatch
  • 25:40 Using Terraform to create AWS S3 buckets & Lambda functions
  • 27:20 Creating pipelines in GitLab to refresh & deploy AWS ECS environments 🚀

Resources:

https://registry.terraform.io/