Terraform is a useful tool for deploying cloud resources. This post isn’t an introduction to terraform, so I’ll assume you already know and love it. If you want more, then this getting started guide would be a sensible start. At its most basic level, terraform deploys cloud resources and stores information about those resources in…
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Further thoughts on Azure instance start times
My post from the other day about slow instance starts on Azure caused some commentary (mainly on reddit) that prompted me to think more about all this. In the end, there were a few more experiments I wanted to run to see if I could squeeze more performance out of Azure. First off, looking at…
Why is Azure so slow to start instances?
I’ve been playing with terraform recently, and decided to see how different the terraform for launching a simple Ubuntu instance in various clouds is. There are two big questions there for me — how big is the variation between OpenStack derived clouds; and how painful is it to move between the proprietary clouds? Part of…