Simplify Your FME Flow Setup: Fault-Tolerant Deployment Made Easy with Packer and Terraform

Deploying a fault tolerant FME Flow on Windows is difficult and time consuming. There are multiple components that all have to be installed in the correct way, and a shared disk that needs to be set up and mounted on all machines with the right permissions. We have simplified all of this with our Infrastructure as Code templates which users can use to create their own FME images in the cloud, and deploy using our Terraform templates. Using Packer and Terraform, this complicated deployment becomes something that is much simpler. It can also be automated using pipelines. It is also much more easily reproducible which allows for easily deployment into a staging environment as well as a production environment. This also helps for upgrades where a new version of FME can be deployed into a staging environment and tested before moving it into a production environment without the headache of all the manual steps needed to create a distributed deployment of FME Flow. This talk will walk the audience through what the IaC templates are, and have a demo of using them to deploy a Distributed Fault Tolerant FME Flow using Packer and Terraform in AWS. The idea is that this can show the audience how this complicated deployment can be made much simpler.