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Introduction
Layerform helps engineers create reusable environment stacks using plain Terraform files.
For those interested in development environments: we don’t want to run your
text-editor and local tools. You still run those on your machine. What we do
is allow you to create your own “staging” environment.
Installation
To install Layerform, you can usego install.
Tutorial
Follow along and learn how to provision infrastructure layers using Layerform. Engineers can then use those layers to create development infrastructure for themselves. In this tutorial, we’ll create layers for running the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Beats) on top of Kubernetes.Tutorial overview
Understand how we’ll use Layerform to create development environments
for the Elastic Stack and learn about the advantages of using layers.
Your first layer definitions
Create layer definitions for Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and
Beats.
Provisioning your first layer definitions
Provision an S3 back-end with the Elastic Stack layer definitions so
that developers can use them to spin up development environments later.
Running the dev infrastructure
Learn how to run the development infrastructure for the Elastic Stack
using the layer definitions we’ve created.
Reference
Read about the different parts of Layerform and how it works.Layer definitions
Learn what are layer definitions and how they work..
Back-ends and provisioning
Learn what is a Layerform back-end and how to use and provision them.
Spawning and killing layers
Learn how to spawn new layer instances or kill existing ones.
CLI Configs
Learn how to configure your Layerform CLI.
Inner workings
Learn how Layerform uses Terraform files and states to spin up
infrastructure using layers.