Development Workspace with Terraform on Azure: Part 4 – DSE w/ Packer + Importing State 4 Terraform

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 →

Development Workspace with Terraform on Azure: Part 1 – Install and Setup Terraform and Azure CLI

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 →