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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Dev & Test in the Cloud? Deploy your cloud environments with Ansible & Terraform

Goetz Rieger

Manual cloud testing environments quickly become unmanageable and cost-prohibitive. Learn to combine Terraform and Ansible to fully automate your infrastructure build, deployment, and decommissioning lifecycle.

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#1 about 3 min

Managing and deploying cloud development environments

Automating cloud infrastructure replaces manual console interactions for reliable test environments.

#2 about 3 min

Categorizing infrastructure lifecycle into three stages

Dividing cloud management into building infrastructure, deploying applications, and managing operational lifecycles.

#3 about 2 min

Building day zero cloud environments with Terraform

Creating repeatable infrastructure resources like security groups and networking using configuration files.

#4 about 4 min

Streamlining application deployment with agentless Ansible

Using modular configuration tasks to install software and libraries on newly provisioned cloud instances.

#5 about 1 min

Relying on Terraform state files for decommissioning

Tracking deployed resources allows automated complete removal to prevent unnecessary cloud expenditures.

#6 about 4 min

Orchestrating infrastructure creation within Ansible playbooks

Executing infrastructure plans via automation tasks and dynamically mapping new instances into variables.

#7 about 1 min

Initiating configuration playbooks via Terraform providers

Delegating post-deployment software installation back to configuration management tools immediately after instance creation.

#8 about 4 min

Executing complex workflows using Ansible Automation Platform

Chaining multiple automation tasks together through centralized enterprise platforms and application programming interfaces.

#9 about 4 min

Combining automation routines for safe infrastructure teardown

Bridging snapshot commands prior to declarative resource deletions to preserve audit trails safely.

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Choosing tools and environments for infrastructure as code

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How Terraform translates code into cloud infrastructure

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4:01 min

Comparing Terraform to popular configuration management tools

Devlin Duldulao · LIVE

2:32 min

Overview of Terraform and Terraform Cloud features

Devlin Duldulao · LIVE

7:47 min

Executing infrastructure provisioning and teardown via Terraform Cloud

Hennie Francis · LIVE

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