Project Overview

This project tasked me to do the following:

  • Create a policy that ensures all indexed resources are tagged
  • Create a reusable Terraform module and Packer template for deploying a custom web server image
  • Use Packer to deploy the VM image and use Terraform to write the infrastructure configuration which uses this image to create a set of load balanced web servers

Project Steps:

  • First step was to create a policy that ensures all indexed resources are tagged and denies deployment if they do not have tags. This helps with organization, tracking, and logging for troubleshooting.
  • Next, create a Packer template server.json to support application deployment that different organizations can take of advantage of to deploy their own apps.
  • Finally, created a terraform template that will allow us to reliably create, update, and destroy our infrastructure.
  • For more details visit this project’s github repo README by clicking on the blue Github button above

Skills

  • Azure DevOps
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Terraform
  • Packer
  • Azure Pipelines
  • Python
  • VM images

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Video of Project

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