3 years ago

Category: Microsoft, Terraform, Hashicorp, android, ios, apple, automation

Over the past few years, I have been watching the shift to infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks closely. With the shift from monolithic to microservices, and with the shift from mostly virtual machines (VMs) to cloud-native architecture, applications are much more complicated, making it much more important to automate infrastructure to respond with speed.

Engineers influence the infrastructure much more than they used to – that is the third cloud revolution. We mainly see four IaC frameworks that drove this revolution – Terraform and Pulumi (both multi-cloud), CloudFormation and ARM (vendor specific).

Engineers prefer a language that is multi-vendor, open-source, no vendor lock-in and that is compatible with other open source solutions built on top, like Open Policy Agent and Terragrunt, to help Terraform users.