DevOps for SharePoint: With Packer, Terraform, Ansible, and Vagrant

© Oscar Medina, Ethan Schumann 2018

Oscar Medina and Ethan SchumannDevOps for SharePointhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3688-8_5

5. Provisioning the SharePoint Farm to AWS Using Terraform and Ansible

Oscar Medina¹  and Ethan Schumann²

(1)

Lafayette, CA, USA

(2)

Frisco, TX, USA

 

In the previous chapter, we successfully created our golden image, the Windows machine that will be used to provision all the virtual machines in AWS and/or Azure.

In this chapter, we go through the exercise of deploying the SharePoint 2016 farm to a test environment in AWS using IaC. Once again, we use Terraform by HashiCorp.

About the Solution Architecture

Note that this architecture does not utilize some of the native AWS resources, such as AWS Directory Service or Amazon ...