Day Two Cloud 085: Hosting Your Infrastructure Code In The Cloud

Let’s say you’re an IT infrastructure professional with increasing cloud responsibilities. You’re doing as much automation as you can, which is actually quite a lot. In fact, you’ve got an army of scripts, playbooks, and plans you’ve been running from a Linux VM sitting on an old VMware server in the corner. Which works. But you’ve been wondering… Is there a better way to host this code in the cloud era? Or would we be confusing “better” with merely “different”? Here to help us sort out hosting code in the cloud is Calvin Hendryx-Parker. Calvin is the co-founder and CTO of Six Feet Up, a Python web application development company. We discuss: * Infrastructure as Code (IaC) * Reasons for moving infrastructure code and scripts to the cloud * Getting your code ready to host in the cloud * Serverless and IaC * Hosting options * Security and access control issues * Cost concerns * More Show Notes: SixFeetUp.com/blog @calvinhp – Calvin Hendryx-Parker on Twitter Terraform Cloud – Terraform Python on Google Cloud – Google Get started with Azure PowerShell – Microsoft Python Web Conference – March 22 – 26   Transcript: [00:00:06.000] – Ethan Welcome to Day Two Cloud, and I hope you brought your your your swim fins, because we’re going to the deep end of the pool right away when the show starts up. [00:00:14.460] I’ll tell you what we’ve got Calvin Hendryx-Parker is joining us today. [00:00:18.240] And Calvin knows a lot about a lot. [00:00:21.390] And we probe his mind on dealing with infrastructure as code. But from a standpoint of how do you actually manage the code dealing with the infrastructure as code, do you host it in the cloud? And then what does that look like? And this isn’t I feel like Luke Skywalker, Ned in the final trilogy there. [00:00:41.940] At some point he says this is not going to go the way you think it’s going to go. That’s why I felt this whole conversation. [00:00:49.860] – Ned Oh, geez. I feel at least partly responsible for that, because, like you said, within like ten minutes a maybe, five minutes of the conversation, we already, like, dive down into the deep end. Calvin and I are getting into it with details around terraform and using Lambda to deploy stuff. And you’re like, whoa, whoa, whoa. [00:01:07.840] Back the truck up a little bit, buddy. [00:01:10.290] – Ethan But it was it was spectacular. I absolutely loved it. And and actually, we’re hoping to have Calvin back for more shows. And as soon as you listen to him explain things and give you his perspective, you’re going to understand why. So we can enjoy this conversation with Calvin Hendryx-Parker. Calvin is the co-founder and CTO of Six Feet Up. It’s a Python Web application development company. And great stuff coming at you. Well, Calvin, welcome to Day Two Cloud and okay, man, so I hit you up kind of cold on on this conversation where the whole idea was, I want to know about hosting my infrastructure as code management programming material up in the clo...