Creating a Reproducible Remote Desktop with Terraform
Conclusion
This article showed how to use Terraform to create an initial setup for a reproducible remote server. Notice how your infrastructure is now managed not manually (apart from images), but through several Terraform commands.
Possible extensions of this concept include:
- Setting up a mini server that runs
terraform applyon schedule, so that it will automatically create your virtual office at a given time and then destroy it - Putting your commands in a makefile
- Automating your server setup via Ansible
Hopefully, this base will be a good start for your future experiments.
Infos
- Terraform installation: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/install
- Hetzner Cloud Console: https://console.hetzner.com/projects
- Terraform documentation: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/docs
The Author
Sergei Iugai is a software developer living in Finland. He is very keen about systems administration, and he likes to look for ways to achieve a better work-life balance through automation.
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