> I guess TF makes a lot more sense for on-premise, bare metal VMs ? No, not necessarily. If you have an API for orchestrating your on-premise infrastructure (

> I guess TF makes a lot more sense for on-premise, bare metal VMs ? No, not necessarily. If you have an API for orchestrating your on-premise infrastructure (openstack etc), then sure. Where terraform shines is managing resources in your cloud provider. I.E. creating the GCP project and GKE cluster that you need before you can apply your k8s YAML. Or creating the cloudsql databases, GCS buckets, etc that the apps running in your k8s cluster need.