Terraforming Earth - How Terraform Bridges the Multi-Cloud Gap for Earth Observation

Explore how Terraform bridges the multi-cloud gap for the Earth Observation (EO) community in this 24-minute conference talk by Armagan Karatosun from HashiCorp. Dive into the challenges of managing growing EO data volumes and the emergence of cloud-based services in data silos. Learn about efforts to unify data access and the shift towards processing data close to its source. Discover practical applications like the Data Proximity Compute Platform (DPC) and European Weather Cloud (EWC) that address current challenges in EO data access and dissemination. Gain insights into deploying, managing, and operating multiple OpenStack clouds and Kubernetes clusters using Terraform. Explore how other HashiCorp products can be integrated to offer additional services to end users. Understand the challenges faced in multi-cloud applications, including service discovery, network connectivity, and security. Get a detailed look at a multi-cloud and multi-cluster setup, showcasing how Terraform simplifies these complex environments for the Earth Observation community.

Terraforming earth: How Terraform bridges the multi-cloud gap for the Earth Observation community