Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that enables organizations to provision, manage, and automate infrastructure across multiple cloud providers, private datacenters, and SaaS platforms. It provides a unified workflow for building, deploying, and managing infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, allowing teams to define resources using a declarative language and version control their infrastructure configurations.

Key Features

Infrastructure as Code Define infrastructure using a declarative configuration language

• Describe desired end-state of infrastructure
• Version and collaborate on infrastructure code

Multi-Cloud Support Provision and manage resources across various cloud providers

• Support for major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
• Consistent workflow across different environments

Resource Graph Automatically determine resource dependencies and creation order

• Parallel provisioning of non-dependent resources
• Efficient infrastructure updates and changes

Benefits

Cost Optimization Reduce infrastructure costs and improve resource utilization

• Automate provisioning and de-provisioning of resources
• Enforce cost-centric policies to limit unnecessary infrastructure

Risk Reduction Standardize infrastructure provisioning and management

• Implement security and compliance guardrails
• Maintain visibility and control at scale

Increased Productivity Enable developers to provision and manage infrastructure easily

• Self-service infrastructure provisioning
• Reusable modules and templates for common configurations