Terraform

Building a Windows 2012R2 Instance in AWS with Terraform

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Terraform is an application by HashiCorp that is designed to treat infrastructure as code. Lately, I have been working with it to begin automation of resources within AWS, and have been quite pleased. Lets get started with building out a Windows 2012 R2 server with Terraform on AWS. You are going to need to have the following items configured in AWS in order for this to work, as I am not going to be using Terraform to build out these …

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Terraform vs Cloudformation — First Thoughts

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Building out AWS infrastructures by hand is not something that should be taken on lightly. Just as in building out a Data Center or service in any cloud environment (Google, VMWare, etc), building out a bunch of systems by hand is a good way to inherit a bunch of technical debt and a headache or three. On top of that, it is slow and cumbersome to build out servers in a manual fashion, and since it is done manually, it …

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