Setting Up a Splunk Testing Environment Using Terraform & GCP
Overview
Have you ever wished you had a fresh ephemeral Splunk instance that you could quickly spin up, run
some tests and then kill it, with maximum speed and minimum cloud costs?
I was working on a customer engagement recently that required me to test a custom developed
Splunk app on a large list of Splunk Universal Forwarder versions and OS distributions (75 distinct host
types in total) that if spun up manually on a cloud provider, would take a long time to set up and tear
down, would be subject to potentially costly “fat-fingering” user errors and would be costly if left up
longer than necessary.
Enter Hashi Terraform to the rescue. The industry-leading infrastructure-as-code tool makes the
standup, setup and teardown of cloud compute nodes simple, speedy and repeatable so that an
environment can be built, a complete set of tests can be run, results received and the test nodes
destroyed in minutes rather than hours.
In this whitepaper, I show how I set up my computer and built the Search Head and Deployment
server, as well as how I set up the many Splunk Universal Forwarders to satisfy the test plan.
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