Terraform at scale: lessons from looking at 100s of IaC setups

Terraform is the most mature and adopted Infrastructure as Code tool in the market, a de facto standard for both startups and enterprise setups. But adopting Terraform comes with some important challenges, depending on the size and stage of your tech organization.

Sören Martius shares best practices for handling Terraform at scale. He is the CEO of Mineiros, a company that focuses on Infrastructure as Code solutions for Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and GitHub. Having worked with hundreds of Terraform setups, he’s seen the common pitfalls teams fall into.

In this Meetup, Sören will explain:

• How to properly structure your Terraform code so that it scales among thousands of managed resources

• How to get automation right that enables a highly collaborative working environment

• Best practices when it comes to supporting tooling for orchestration and code generation, policies, cost prediction, vulnerability and threat detection

After a 30 minutes talk, there will be 15 minutes for Q&A. We’d like to encourage you to submit your questions in advance.

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Speaker:
Sören Martius
CEO at Mineiros
Entrepreneur and technologist who loves building and delivering digital products and managing and scaling engineering teams for various kinds of businesses.
His interests in technologies lie with DLT’s, Distributed Networks, Machine Learning, Microservices, Serverless Compute, Docker (and Kubernetes), AWS, Spark, Scala, Go, Elixir & OTP, Python, Rust, and Typescript among many others.
Sören likes simplicity, pragmatism and common sense while bridging business, product and technology.