A presentation at HashiConf Europe in in Amsterdam, Netherlands by Horacio Gonzalez
How a Top European Cloud Provider Migrated to TFE Horacio Gonzalez 2022-06-22
Who are we? Introducing myself and introducing OVHcloud
Horacio Gonzalez @LostInBrittany Spaniard lost in Brittany, developer, dreamer and all-around geek Flutter
OVHcloud: A global leader Web Cloud & Telcom 35 Data Centers in 12 locations 1 Million+ Servers produced since 1999 Private Cloud 34 Points of Presence on a 20 TBPS Bandwidth Network 1.5 Million Customers across 132 countries Public Cloud 2200 Employees worldwide 3.8 Million Websites hosting Storage 115K Private Cloud VMS running 1.5 Billion Euros Invested since 2016 300K Public Cloud instances running P.U.E. 1.09 Energy efficiency indicator 380K Physical Servers running in our data centers 20+ Years in Business Disrupting since 1999 Network & Security
OVHcloud: an industrial history From Roubaix to the World
OVHcloud began with hardware We assembly our own bare metal servers
Looking for maximum efficiency We build our own (horizontal) racks
From components to datacenters
We master the industrial value chain
Wait, why is this relevant? This is a talk about Terraform Enterprise, isn’t it?
An industrial culture All around the company, from hardware to software
A strong build it ourselves culture And a deep commitment to Open Source
Let’s travel back to 2014 How can we industrialize deployment ?
In 2015 we built DaaS Deployment as a Service
Rise and fall of DaaS A four years kingdom
DaaS: API and web UI entry points
Hierarchical support
DaaS: clusters, groups & backends
Based on API calls, not IaC
A small team for a big project
2017 - DaaS creators leave the team
2019: a new unit arrives, GIS
Analyse: 3 main problems
Looking for a solution Terraform to the rescue!
We can do DaaS V2, can’t we?
What should we do now?
Enter Terraform
Better suited for the original goal
But Terraform alone isn’t enough
What about using CDS?
What about Terraform Cloud?
Discussing with HashiCorp
Let’s do a TFE workshop!
Terraform Enterprise From POC to Prod
A structured growth
Some numbers…
Extensively used by the teams
What’s next for us? Let’s continue step by step
A TFE training during onboarding And adding more guides
Developing some tooling To simplify bare metal deployment with our API
Providers, resources and agents To deal more smoothly with our infrastructure
What do the teams think of it? Spoiler: they are quite happy!
Teams currently using TFE ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Core Observability Core Observability US Critical Databases Data Convergence GIS Network GIS Systems GIS Tools Machine Learning & AI ● ● ● ● ● ● ● PCI PU Data PU Enablers Storage VOIP Web Cloud Database Webhosting
GIS Systems
Data Convergence
Webhosting
That’s all, folks! Thank you all!
We often hear about the use of TF and TFE, but what about its use in large structure. Hear the story of OVHcloud, one of the biggest European hosting and cloud providers, with their challenges (large at-scale infra, security, self-provisioning via API) and the benefits. Was the choice to switch from an “homemade” solution to the migration of its teams to TFE easy?Horacio will tell you this story through figures, anecdotes, and internal feedback from their teams.
