Using terraform to quickly setup/destroy droplets to save 💰
- Be me
- Poor AF fresh graduate
- Local machine only has puny 4GB RAM
- Playing with things like
Kubernetes
not good locally - need POWAH
- Digital Ocean has $50 free student credits
- Want to use 8GB 4CPU droplet
- $40/month (charged per hour of usage)
- wtf.jpg
- Use Terraform to create instances on-demand and instantly cleanup when done
- Preserve state through version-control and automated-provisiong, LOTS of provisioning :)