nyue
August 3, 2020, 3:52am
1
I have a set of configuration and installation steps that requires multiple reboots intersperse in the user_data.
Is there a best practice approach to do that or should I look at pairing Terraform with Ansible for such use cases.
Cheers
Hi @nyue
Welcome back to the forums.
I would prefer to use Ansible for instance SW configuration as it could change more often than the infrastructure (that I will definitely keep managing with Terraform)
Provisioners are a Last Resort see:
Hi @rmattier ,
In the ideal case, Terraform should not need direct access to the machines it’s deploying because provisioners are a last resort . Indeed, that section alludes to this very problem as one of the justifications for seeking other approaches where possible:
Secondly, successful use of provisioners requires coordinating many more details than Terraform usage usually requires: direct network access to your servers, issuing Terraform credentials to log in, making sure that all of the n…