Terrafrom is open source software for IaS
IaS = Infrastructure as a Service
Terraform is product by HashiCorp company
Here are few quick points, which will make Terraform very popular in Cloud Industry
- Terraform is declarative approach to create Infrastructure which we required
- Idempotent & consistent
- We can store our code in Source Control system - gitlab, git
- TF is push type method for creating Infra
- We can automate deployment
- Multiple consistent environment can be created easily
- Time saver - Repeatable process
- Reusable components