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Infrastructure as code with Terraform
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) enables developers to create IT environments by merely writing code, as the name implies. To attain automation, speed, and consistency is the driving force behind this. Manually maintaining infrastructure can be difficult and prone to errors when large teams are working on complicated projects.
A nice illustration of an IaC tool is Terraform. Terraform employs declarative language to create easily understood code that efficiently aids in provisioning and controlling the lifetime of the infrastructure. Over 1,000 providers are supported, including orchestration tools like Kubernetes, cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, and many more.
In the cloud, Terraform is a fantastic configuration management tool used to provision resources. When it comes to managing and orchestrating cloud architectures, it is among the best automation solutions. Incorporating databases, CI/CD, and a ton of other nice features into application architecture makes managing and handling it much simpler. Terraform is quite declarative and only updates the state, not the resources.
Core Concepts of Terraform
Provider
Terraform requires the provider file in order to connect to any cloud provider, database, pipeline, or another external service. Any…
