The next thing I wanted setup for my development workspace is a DataStax Enterprise Cluster. This will give me all of the Apache Cassandra database features plus a lot of additional features around search, OpsCenter, analytics, and more. I’ll elaborate on that in some future posts. For now, let’s get an image built we can... Continue reading →

In part 1 of this series I setup Terraform and put together a basic setup for ongoing use. In part 2 I setup Packer and got a template started that installs Apache Cassandra 3.11.4. In this part there’s one more key piece. Really key piece for iterating and moving quickly with development needs on a... Continue reading →

Series Links: 1, 2 (this entry) Today I’m going to walk through the install and setup of Packer, and get our first builds running for Azure. I started this work in the previous article in this series, “Development Workspace with Terraform on Azure: Part 1 – Install and Setup Terraform and Azure CLI“. This is... Continue reading →

So I’ve been fighting through getting some Packer images built in Azure again. I haven’t done this in almost a year but as always I’ve just walked in and BOOM I’ve got an error already. This first error I’ve gotten is after I create an Resource Group and then a Service Principal. I’ve gotten all... Continue reading →

Prerequisites before all of this. Have a basic understanding of how to use Terraform and what it does. This is covered pretty well in the Hashicorp Docs here (single page read <5 minutes) and if you have a LinkedIn Learning account check out my Terraform course “Learning Terraform“. Beyond that some basic CLI/terminal knowledge, understand... Continue reading →