Elastic ❤️ Terraform
summary
Elastic standardizes on Terraform (dropping Ansible and Helm/Compose) and splits integrations into an cloud provider for Elastic Cloud and a stack provider for on‑prem or self‑managed clusters, both implemented in Go. Configuration flows use nchain for scoped secrets and jq to parse terraform output; when APIs lag, teams use a local-exec curl hack to import dashboards and rely on a file-hash trigger to reapply only changed dashboards. HashiCorp’s relicensing and the OPF fork exist but Elastic’s current workflow expects little immediate impact.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:24What is Terraform
- 3:36Elastic and Terraform
- 10:17Terraform providers and demos
- 13:11Licensing changes impact
- 17:10OpenTF fork discussion
- 23:15Conclusion and Q&A
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