#47: Terraform: managing infrastructure as code

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Terraform is fairly low-level software for managing your infrastructure. For instance, it’s used to create and provision cloud instances, networks and software. Unlike traditional tools in this area, Terraform is declarative. It means you don’t define step-by-step, imperative guides. Essentially, scripting your infrastructure with Bash or Python. Instead, you define desired, final infrastructure state. For example, how many hosts, how they should be connected, what kind of software and packages they should contain. Once you apply this configuration, Terraform takes all the necessary steps to fulfill your needs. Here’s how it works in more detail.

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