Terraform is part of a movement called “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC) which allows engineers to define their cloud infrastructure using code.
This is extremely useful as it allows you to:
version infrastructure changes
automate resource and configuration creation and management
have reproducible environments (think production and staging envs, or deploying a new production env to another datacenter)
Terraform (and OpenTofu) is different to most IaC project as it is agnostic of cloud providers: you can use it to deploy infrastructure to multiple providers, where their competitors are limited to their own platform (I think of AWS’s Cloud Development Kit)
I felt completely lost. What is Terraform?
Not exactly sure what that means, but that may help someone!
Terraform is part of a movement called “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC) which allows engineers to define their cloud infrastructure using code.
This is extremely useful as it allows you to:
version infrastructure changes
automate resource and configuration creation and management
have reproducible environments (think production and staging envs, or deploying a new production env to another datacenter)
Terraform (and OpenTofu) is different to most IaC project as it is agnostic of cloud providers: you can use it to deploy infrastructure to multiple providers, where their competitors are limited to their own platform (I think of AWS’s Cloud Development Kit)