For many DevOps teams, using Terraform to deploy IaC seems simple and obvious. Native Terraform supports codified interaction with a vast array of hardware platforms, cloud providers, cloud services, and development products. The added plus is that it’s a declarative language and is meant to be easy to use.
Moreover, we see increasing market demand and trust in the tool. Not only are early adopter companies increasingly doubling down with Terraform for their IaC deployments, but public cloud providers and software companies are investing in it, too.
If you haven’t lived through an IaC-at-scale implementation, you may not know of the painful lessons that come with choosing the wrong products to pair with Terraform. You’ll need a suite of tools to enable the at-scale automation needed for operational and security governance. Be aware – choosing the wrong kinds of tools will restrict your ability to implement IaC at scale.
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