Building a scalable learning platform: Terraform, Kubernetes
summary
Instruqt is a hands-on learning platform that gives each user a personal sandboxed infrastructure created in seconds; the production stack runs on GKE + Cloud SQL + Cloud Storage and uses many managed Google services for resilience and cost control. Infrastructure is declared and rebuilt with Terraform manages entire platform and Terraform code is generated from track YAML using generated Terraform via Go templates, enabling terraform apply/destroy to spin up or tear down per-user environments in under a minute.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and platform overview
- 4:20Early platform history and evolution
- 6:47Google Cloud Platform architecture
- 9:36Terraform for infrastructure as code
- 11:22Golang in the learning platform
- 12:47Behind the scenes of a user track
- 17:29Track configuration and SDK
- 21:09Generating Terraform with Go templates
- 24:59Build pipeline with Container Builder
- 26:45Avoiding vendor lock-in strategies
- 28:56Q&A session
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