HashiContest: Learn to use Consul, Vault, Nomad and Terraform

HashiContest: In a series of hands-on challenges you can show your skills or learn how to use Consul, Vault, Nomad and Terraform. By completing the challenges you earn points and move your way up the leaderboards. Hashicontest was introduced first at Hashiconf EU (http://www.hashiconf.eu/) and we will get help setting this up from the creator of that event Erik Veld (https://twitter.com/erikveld).

The tools that are covered in the challenges are:

Consul

Consul (http://www.consul.io/) is a tool for discovering and configuring services in your infrastructure. It provides Service Discovery, Health Checking, aKey/Value Store, is Multi-Datacenter aware and integrates easily with applications via its DNS and HTTP interfaces and can render templates and environment variables.

Vault

Vault (http://www.vaultproject.io/) is a tool for securely accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and more. Vault provides a unified interface to any secret, while providing tight access control and recording a detailed audit log.

Nomad

Nomad (http://www.nomadproject.io/) is a tool for managing a cluster of machines and running applications on them. Nomad abstracts away machines and the location of applications, and instead enables users to declare what they want to run and Nomad handles where they should run and how to run them.

Terraform

Terraform (http://www.terraform.io/) is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.