Infinity and beyond: Scaling Terraform for the global enterprise
summary
Practical blueprint for running Terraform Enterprise at global scale with concrete claims and tools: support for tens of thousands of users and thousands of runs per day, deployment patterns using Nomad or autoscaling groups, HCP Terraform/TFE with HTTP Terraform agents and a Kubernetes operator, and integrations with Vault, Sentinel, Instana, Dependabot/Renovate and CI/CD. Shows dynamic provider credentials, Nomad dispatching single-use agents, ephemeral resources and write-only attributes and multiple team tokens. Includes an AWS demo that fails over from us-east to us-west in under five minutes and validates automated DR.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction and speakers
- 1:48Scaling Terraform at global scale
- 2:31Infrastructure setup and scaling
- 8:54Terraform on Nomad architecture
- 9:14Scaling operations with agents
- 11:00Custom agent images and hooks
- 12:24Dynamic provider credentials
- 13:28Ephemeral resources and secrets
- 14:53Team tokens and automation
- 15:38CI/CD workflows and rate limits
- 17:31Module management with Renovate
- 18:12Governance and policy as code
- 20:21Advanced Sentinel policies
- 21:05Observability by default
- 22:10Instana integration with Terraform
- 23:13Resource tagging and monitoring
- 24:40Shifting monitoring left
- 25:24Standardizing observability
- 25:51Disaster recovery best practices
- 26:57Automated failover demo
- 28:04Closing and resources
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