In the Fall of 2019, Replicated CEO, Grant Miller, sat down with Evan Phoenix, a lead engineer at HashiCorp, to discuss how they deliver Terraform Enterprise with Replicated.
During this webinar, you’ll get overviews of both Replicated and Terraform, followed by a detailed screenshare of how HashiCorp leverages the core Replicated Vendor features to deliver Terraform Enterprise to hundreds of organizations.
Content timeline and quicklinks
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Introduction
01:00 – Overview of Replicated & modern on-prem.
06:15 – Overview of Terraform & Terraform Enterprise (TF:E) core functionality.
10:15 – Strategy for why Terraform Enterprise delivers “on-prem”, brief history on DIY version of TF:E, why they decided to evaluate Replicated to replace the internally built solution.
18:40 – Overview of the Replicated Vendor Portal.
Releases, testing and build pipelines
20:15 – A view into HashiCorp’s Replicated account, adoption rates, airgap discussion, discussion of release channels, the SDLC for TF:E, release cadence, update promotion.
26:15 – The first CI system integration that HashiCorp uses to push releases to Replicated via the CLI and API.
31:10 – Testing feature branches with CircleCI Enterprise (automatically create specific channels and licenses which are used in automated testing) and do automated smoke testing.
37:43 – Using multiple Replicated Apps (prod & dev) for testing and RBAC.
License management
38:00 – License management overview
38:50 – How HashiCorp uses Replicated RBAC to securely enable their sales team to provision licenses and entitlements for customers.
42:20 – Managing individual customer licenses and entitlements (expiration, air gap enabled, seats etc).
45:50 – Creating a custom entitlement via license fields.
47:00 – Audit log of the license activity (creation, changes etc).
47:40 – License activity reporting (installs, updates).
Troubleshoot & support tools
49:00 – Troubleshoot overview, support workflows.
51:00 – Analyzers & custom analyzers.
52:00 – Support bundle viewer deep linking.
End-customer on-prem install experience
59:00 – End user experience of installing Terraform Enterprise.
59:30 – Install script via a proxied vanity url w/ common options.
1:03:00 – On-prem admin experience (custom CSS), multi-channel licenses.
1:04:55 – Preflight checks (i.e. make sure the instance can download from terraform.io).
1:05:35 – Viewer question about disconnected (air gap) installs.
1:09:15 – Config screen, select your install type demo or prod.
1:10:30 – Configuration validation with test procedures (regex and programmable).
1:16:00 – Audit log, support bundle generation, clustering and update checks.
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