Infrastructure Automation and Observability with Terraform

The HashiCorp User Group in Toronto is coming back! We are excited to announce the reboot of in-person HUGs. Please join us for an evening of fun, technology, and all things HashiCorp.

This event is in person at the PwC office at 18 York Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, M5J 0B2.

The agenda will be as follows:

• General HashiCorp update - Jim Sullivan
• Recap of HashiConf Global 2022 - Jacob Mammoliti
• Observability Landscape-as-Code with Terraform - Adriana Villela
• Digital Branch in a jiffy - Venu Gudipati and Shashank Sharma

Pizza and beverages will be provided!

For those that cannot attend in person, we will try and record the talks to be posted shortly after.

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Talk 1: Observability Landscape-as-Code with Terraform
An Observability Landscape is made up of application instrumentation, collecting and storing application telemetry, an Observability back-end, a set of meaningful SLOs, and alerts for on-call Engineers.
Observability-Landscape-as-Code (OLaC) is the codification of the Observability Landscape, thereby ensuring consistency, maintainability, and reproducibility.
In this talk, I'll showcase about how my team and I used Terraform to demonstrate OLaC in practice:

• Deploy the OpenTelemetry Demo App to Kubernetes. The OTel Demo App showcases the Traces and Metrics instrumentation of different services in different languages using OpenTelemetry.
• Deploy an OpenTelemetry Collector to Kubernetes (part of the Demo App deployment). The Collector is used to send application Traces and Metrics to Lightstep.
• Configure Lighstep dashboards. The Lightstep Terraform provider allowed us to codify this.

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Talk 2: Digital Branch in a jiffy
Abstract coming soon!