Terraform and Packer roadmap
October 25, 2023
28 min
Free
packer
cloud-automation
terraform
infrastructure-as-code
devops
hashicorp
iac
multi-cloud
platform-engineering
configuration-management
Description
In this session, Harold Gimenez shares the latest features and capabilities of Terraform, Terraform Cloud, and HCP Packer, providing insight into the latest improvements and what to expect next. The talk covers enhancements in editor validation, native testing frameworks, custom provider functions, and config-driven removal for Terraform. It also discusses module upgrades for no-code provisioning, runtime version management for policy as code, and HCP Packer webhooks. Finally, it introduces Terraform Stacks as a new execution model for managing complex infrastructure at scale.