Why Should Terraform Become One of DevOps Tools?

Terraform is one of the tools you should use in the DevOps tool chain. This blog post describes the basic reason for considering Terraform as one of DevOps tools. Terraform is a tool for the safe, effective development, change, and version control infrastructure. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as customized internal solutions. Terraform is the first multi-cloud immutable infrastructure tool released by HashiCorp many years ago and written in Go.

DevOps is about culture and practice aimed at unifying development processes. Terraform is a tool and has become more and more popular because it has a simple syntax, can be easily modularized, and can work in a multi-cloud environment. It is believed that one of the important reasons for Terraform is to manage its infrastructure as code. Infrastructure as code is also the key and foundation of DevOps practices (such as version control, code review, continuous integration) and continuous deployment.

If you try to search for "infrastructure as code" on Google, a list of tools will be listed, and anyone will be confused to see so many options. But Terraform is a tool worth considering because of its excellent features and special reasons compared to other similar tools.

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Reasons to consider Terraform for DevOps
As we all know, the goal of DevOps is to perform software delivery more efficiently. We need some tools to deliver quickly and efficiently. This is where tools like Terraform help companies that implement infrastructure code and automation.

Terraform has revolutionized the field of DevOps by changing the way the infrastructure is managed, and making it perform DevOps faster and more efficiently. You may have used technologies such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to automate and provision software. Terraform starts with the same rules and infrastructure as the code, but focuses on the automation of the infrastructure itself.

Your entire cloud infrastructure (instance, volume, network, IP) can be easily defined in terraform.

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Let’s see why Terraform is considered as one of your DevOps tools,

Terraform allows you to define the infrastructure in the configuration/code and enables you to easily rebuild/change and track changes to the infrastructure. Terraform provides a high-level description of the basic structure.

Terraform is the only complex tool that is completely platform-independent and supports other services. Although there are several options, they focus on a single cloud provider.

Terraform enables you to implement various coding principles, such as placing the code in source code control, and writing automated tests.
Terraform is the correct tool for infrastructure management, because many other tools cause severe impedance mismatches due to attempts to disrupt APIs designed to configure management to control the infrastructure environment. Instead, Terraform can correctly match the operation you want to perform-the API is consistent with how you think about the infrastructure.

Terraform has an active community and is open source, and a large community is being developed around the tool. Many people are already using it, and it is easier to find people who know how to use it, plugins, extensions, professional support, etc. This also means that Terraform is developing much faster. They do post regularly.

Terraform's speed and operation are outstanding. One of the cool things about Terraform is that its plan command allows you to review the changes that will be applied before applying the changes. Code reuse features and Terraform tend to make most changes faster than similar tools like CloudFormation.
For the above reasons, Terraform is a good tool for DevOps, so the tool has recently received widespread attention.