Re:AWS mistakes to avoid
by nzoschke on Saturday December 26, 2015 @07:12PM
(#10795802)
Thanks, I updated my profile with contact info.
Terraform is awesome if you want an OSS project to manage multiple cloud vendors.
But I think that infrastructure change management is a really hard problem and the state of the art solution is how AWS runs CloudFormation as a managed service.
Once it's set up properly, it's amazing watching what CloudFormation can do. It can execute updating 20 instances to roll out a new AMI, and then roll the whole operation back on demand or if a failure happens. All with no application downtime in the cluster!
Terraform is awesome if you want an OSS project to manage multiple cloud vendors.
But I think that infrastructure change management is a really hard problem and the state of the art solution is how AWS runs CloudFormation as a managed service.
Once it's set up properly, it's amazing watching what CloudFormation can do. It can execute updating 20 instances to roll out a new AMI, and then roll the whole operation back on demand or if a failure happens. All with no application downtime in the cluster!