> In production I normally see people building production images and spinning up them up in their cloud with Terraform and whatever other infrastructure they n

> In production I normally see people building production images and spinning up them up in their cloud with Terraform and whatever other infrastructure they need I see a stark difference between infra management tool (like Terraform), and deploy tooling. Infra I prefer to describe "declarative", and Terraform helps a lot with that. Deplyments are "imperative" in nature to me: turn on maintenance page, remove cluster X, spin up cluster Y, run migrations, etc. So I find Terraform a bad fit for deployment tooling (please explain if you disagree, I'd like to learn).