Cloud agnostic Drupal
Channel: Drupaljam
Date: 2020-11-18

In current times everybody is hopping into the cloud, the thing that used to be virtual machines. It’s quite easy these days to get into public clouds like Google, Azure or Amazon.
What about jumping between clouds? That's more and more difficult especially when the logic is engineered deeper into a specific cloud service.

In practice there is two kind of services: stateful (persistence layers like databases) and stateless (runners, functions and ) and hybrid services;
Virtualized and elastic environment

Introducing terraform, This free open source tool by Hashicorp allows you to program Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service.

Now let’s bring this back to Drupal, i remember a presentation in 2010 in Drupalcon Copenhagen on `How to Manage Your Cloud by Drupal` at that time cloud was in its infancy and simplistically phrased: much more than re-marketed virtual machines.

Currently the cloud has gotten its own complexity each slightly different by vendors.
This talk will focus on how to get acquainted with terraform the Drupal cloud module and a consistent workflow from your localhost to private and public cloud implementations.

This is a technical talk at medium level to cope with the following challenges:
Dependencies, scale, variance and change.