• rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io
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      1 year ago

      You like deploying infrastructure, probably in a cloud environment, but you don’t want to push a bunch of buttons in their web interface, so you use Terraform to declaratively define the things you want, and it goes and builds them for you. Super useful for when you need to build resources often, to detect and correct config drift, and get started down the path of Infrastructure as Code.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah it works super well if you have a base config across all nodes then you want to create per project configs and spin them off your build system.

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      1 year ago

      There’s plenty of responses which are probably more thorough than I am, however, as I understand it as a PM dealing with cloud migrations:

      Terraform is scripts of code which automates the deployment cloud platforms, applications, services so that you don’t need to manually set up and configure everything each time.