With the beginning of the cloud era, the need for automation of cloud infrastructure has become essential. Although still very young (version 0.12), Terraform has already become the leading solution in the field of Infrastructure-as-Code. A completely new tool in an emerging area, working in a new programming model – this brings a lot of questions and doubts, especially when handling business-essential cloud infrastructure.
At GFT, we face challenges of delivering Terraform deployments at scale: on top of all major cloud providers, supporting large organizations in the highly regulated environment of financial services, with multiple teams working in environments in multiple regions around the world. Automation of Terraform delivery while ensuring proper security and mitigation of common risks and errors is one of the main topics across our DevOps teams.