Terraform 0.12 Deep Dive: HCL Enhancements for Infrastructure as Code, Remote Plan & Apply

At HashiConf 2018, we announced the exciting new updates to Terraform 0.12.

• Keynote: Terraform 0.12, Free SaaS Tier, HCL upgrades
• A Tour of Terraform 0.12

With over a dozen new improvements in Terraform 0.12, we’d like to focus on 2 key updates and their use cases: What are the new HCL enhancements and what is Remote Plan & Apply?

HashiCorp software engineer Kristin Laemmert and solutions engineer Arslan Saeed will dive deeper than previous videos into Terraform HCL use cases, and also into a real world demo of Remote Plan & Apply.

What you'll learn

• Why HCL works well for infrastructure as code
• HCL enhancements overview
• Remote Plan & Apply use cases
• Addressing organizational challenges scaling from Terraform open source to Enterprise
• Demo of Remote Plan & Apply

HCL Enhancements

HCL enhancements provide a more robust, feature-rich language to simplify the process of writing, analyzing, and processing Terraform configurations.

Remote Plan & Apply

Remote Plan & Apply allows the Terraform command to be back-ended and executed by Terraform Enterprise remotely, while still being run in a CI environment or on a developer’s laptop. This keeps secrets secure while preserving your core workflow and abiding by policies or restrictions with infrastructure access.

Agenda

0:00 — Introduction to Terraform

9:38 — HCL Enhancements for Terraform 0.12

25:00 — Introduction to Terraform Enterprise

30:00 — Demo: Remote Plan & Apply

46:00 — Q&A

Q&A

• Will Terraform 0.12 be backwards compatible with 0.11?
• When will Terraform 0.12 be available?
• Is there a schedule for when Kubernetes ReplicaSets will be supported?
• Will 0.12 cover cloud nat and cloud router in GCP?

Here's an early upgrade guide for Terraform 0.12.

Slides