Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code Challenge of Provisioning Cloud Resources Manual Provisioning of infrastructure at scale is slow and cumbersome. Provisioning infrastructure through point-and-click GUIs is error-prone, inefficient, and doesn’t scale. The cloud was built for automation, but writing custom scripts for every service and every use case is time-consuming and costly for development teams. Solution Infrastructure as Code(IaC) to automate infrastructure provisioning on any cloud. Multi-cloud provisioning should be automated with declarative infrastructure as code. There should be a simple, easy to learn configuration language to allow people to define infrastructure resources such that infrastructure can be codified, shared, versioned, and executed with a consistent workflow across all environments. ...

August 10, 2024 · 9 min · 1908 words · Justin Hu