Migrating HealthCare.gov to Terraform: Lessons Learned

October 2018

O'Reilly Velocity Conference, New York

I gave this talk at O'Reilly Velocity Conference after our team completed a major migration to Terraform for three critical production systems at HealthCare.gov. All these systems were hosted on AWS, where we had previously used Cloudformation since 2014.

This talk considers the relative tradeoffs of each tool, and what we learned in the process of our migration. I lost the speaker notes, so I only have the slides for this talk. I also like to use a lot of gifs in my talks which don't always come through in the slide images. Sorry!
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