Case Study: Tumelo achieves portable cloud-native database management with HashiCorp Terraform

Database Administration in a Cloud Native World with Terraform at Tumelo

Tumelo is a company modernizing its cloud-native database infrastructure and seeking more portability and consistency in how databases are provisioned and managed. In this case study, HashiCorp and its Terraform product are used to help Tumelo address the challenge of moving from a model where each service owned its own database instance to a more secure, shared-instance approach.

HashiCorp Terraform was implemented as the infrastructure-as-code vehicle to configure cloud-native databases and the surrounding infrastructure, making it easier to test a setup and then deploy it into production. The result was improved portability and a more flexible way to choose how to split data at the instance, database, or schema level; however, the case study does not provide specific quantitative metrics or measured business impact.

Tumelo

Benjamin King

Co-Founder