HCP Waypoint is a powerful continuous delivery platform that aims to simplify development release cycles across various environments by abstracting away underlying primitives and toolchain. Using Waypoint as a managed service on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform allows you to manage your application lifecycle without needing to maintain your own Waypoint server infrastructure.
In this talk, I will do a walkthrough of Waypoint architecture, what the advantages are compared to other approaches, and how to use managed HCP Waypoint to build and deploy applications with faster feedback loop.
Unsurprisingly it’s also using HCL for configuration, which is becoming a standard across the HashiCorp stack. I’ll also do a live demo of building, deploying, and hopefully accessing example application via service URL to different target environments.
4. ABOUT
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Head of Consultancy at The Scale Factory (B2B SaaS consultancy,
AWS Advanced consulting partner and K8s service provider)
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Ops background, wearing different hats, engaged with many
different technologies
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Open source contributor, maintainer and supporter
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HashiCorp Ambassador, OpenUK Ambassador
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Certifications and competencies: AWS, CKA, RHEL, HCTA
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Fan of automation/simplifying things, hiking and travelling
@_MarkoB
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marko-bevc/
| @marko@hachyderm.io
5. WAYPOINT
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• Simplifying development workflows
• Single point of interaction
• Components: Server, UI, Runners
• It’s contributing to and ensuring:
–Better consistency
–Higher confidence
–Extensible ecosystem
• Abstracting development life-cycle using HCLv2 (IaC)
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