Lessons learned migrating HealthCare.gov to Terraform
Christian Monaghan explains how he and his team successfully migrated HealthCare.gov, America's largest government website, to the cloud infrastructure provisioning tool Terraform, shares lessons learned along the way, and details how you can effectively use Terraform for your next project.
| Talk Title | Lessons learned migrating HealthCare.gov to Terraform |
| Speakers | Christian Monaghan (HealthCare.gov |
| Conference | Velocity |
| Conf Tag | Build resilient systems at scale |
| Location | New York, New York |
| Date | September 20-22, 2016 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Terraform is a powerful open source tool that allows developers to manage cloud infrastructure as code. This empowers small teams to manage complex infrastructures that were typically the domain of specialized operations teams. However, this requires a new way of thinking about infrastructure design patterns. Whether you’re launching a new application or migrating a legacy system, the ability to spin up cloud infrastructure quickly while retaining flexibility, maintainability, and reuse is key. Christian Monaghan explains how he and his team successfully migrated HealthCare.gov, America’s largest government website, to the cloud infrastructure provisioning tool Terraform, shares lessons learned along the way, and details how you can effectively use Terraform for your next project. Christian focuses specifically on the challenges he and his team faced and how they designed infrastructure provisioning with Terraform. Topics include:
