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There are benefits to Terraform, even at basic levels. You can version control infrastructure, check if manual changes have been made, and quickly spin up new,
by mywittyname 5y ago
There are benefits to Terraform, even at basic levels. You can version control infrastructure, check if manual changes have been made, and quickly spin up new, identical environments from the same configurations.
Yes, there are alternative ways of accomplishing this, but simple config files that can be easily validated and used to check against current infrastructure is an ideal way to do this.
Before Terraform, I worked on a team that built what was basically terraform. It's just a natural, obvious, and effective way of managing cloud infrastructure.
- dominotw 5y agoi think gp is asking about 'as a service' part.
- digianarchist 5y agoI'll pick TFE because Nomad doesn't exist as a service. Audit trails, authorization, authentication, sentry rules (don't allow devs to open a public port for example), centralized automation (plans executed in order), dedicated build agents. That's a few reasons why we used TFE at Capital One.
- paulgb 5y agoCurious -- is “used” past-tense because you're no longer at Capital One, or because Capital One stopped using them?
- digianarchist 5y agoThe former!