Using Terraform Enterprise to Support 3,000 Users

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Booking.com describes running HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise with 3,000 active users by auto-creating GitLab repos, TFE workspaces and OpenStack projects from a central service that generates Terraform code. The pipeline uses Packer images, custom Terraform providers, Sentinel checks and Puppet, and supports mass updates of modules to all workspaces. Provisioning drops from ~45 minutes to under five minutes with many VMs ready in about 30 seconds, and a factory model bootstraps 100 apps in three months.

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1. 0:00Introduction and context
2. 1:46Problem and high-level solution
3. 3:30User scale and legacy issues
4. 6:20Ownership and automation goals
5. 7:43System architecture overview
6. 9:07Demo of VM provisioning
7. 12:20Advanced workflows and CLI use
8. 14:47Group machine management
9. 16:31Workspace creation process
10. 19:19Workspace management demo
11. 21:44Centralized updates and scaling
12. 23:31Scaling to 3,000 users
13. 24:12Results and achievements

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