Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Best Cloud Native Languages to Treat Your Infra Just Like Code
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It has often been said that using the right tool for any given job makes the task go more quickly and easily. But what is the best methodology for beating back the babble of the numerous coding languages available? How does my team and my organization pick specific languages for specific jobs, so you can operate more efficiently, with greater scalability, and increased performance?
Choosing the right language for performing the repetitive tasks to treat infrastructure as code is a perfect example of this adage in practice. And although there are many languages and infrastructure providers to choose from, if you start with understanding your use case and workload requirements, the decision on how to best treat your Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) will become clear.
In this Tech Talk, Sr. Solution Architect Kevin Ng of Mirantis provides comparisons and weighs the merits as well as the limitations of using each of the following cloud native programming languages:
⏺ Pulumi
⏺ Terraform (HashiCorp)
⏺ Ansible (RedHat)
⏺ Chef (Progress Software)
⏺ Puppet (Perforce)
⏺ SaltStack (added to VMware)
⏺ Vagrant (HashiCorp)
After a complete overview of the tools, Kevin will walk you through an IaC example: installing k0s by Mirantis – our open source, upstream K8s Distro – on top of AWS EC2 instances. He will cover the specific prerequisites and install steps when leveraging each of these tools. Lastly, Kevin will outline some of his favorites, specifically for infrastructure management, configuration management, and even a little bit of both.
🚀 Ready to conquer your infrastructure management, leveraging the latest in Cloud Native programming languages to treat your Infrastructure-as-Code? Check out the Tech Talk and find the best tool(s) for your use case.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 – Intro
0:45 – What this Tech Talk will cover
1:26 – What does infrastructure deployment automation mean?
2:42 – Container DevSecOps pipeline
3:50 – The tools we will be looking at
4:27 – Pulumi
5:47 – Terraform from HashiCorp
6:32 – Ansible from Red Hat
7:46 – Chef from Progress
8:56 – Puppet from Perforce
9:34 – SaltStack (now) from VMware
10:16 – Vagrant from HashiCorp
11:26 – An actual IaC deployment scenario: k0s on AWS
12:26 – Prerequisites for all the tools
14:54 – Install steps for all the tools
17:21 – Main scripts: Pulumi
18:29 – Main scripts: Terraform
19:22 – Main scripts: Ansible
20:07 – Main scripts: Chef
21:04 – Main scripts: Puppet
21:49 – Main scripts: SaltStack
22:36 – Main scripts: Vagrant
23:37 – Which tool is best? Ease of use
28:00 – Which tool is best? Security
32:57 – Real-World scenarios: Infra vs Config management
35:30 – Choosing the right tool
42:15 – Upcoming Mirantis presentations
44:09 – Outro
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