Terraform

What is it?

Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure as Code tool developed by HashiCorp. It allows infrastructure to be described in human-readable configuration files and managed through version control.

What does it do?

Terraform provisions and manages infrastructure resources such as servers, networks, databases, and load balancers. It creates execution plans, applies changes safely, and keeps infrastructure state consistent across environments.

Where is it used?

Terraform is widely used in cloud-native architectures, enterprise platforms, SaaS products, and DevOps teams managing AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and hybrid infrastructures.

When & why it emerged

Terraform was released in 2014 to solve the challenges of manual and inconsistent infrastructure provisioning. It emerged as a standard for automating cloud infrastructure in a scalable and vendor-agnostic way.

Why we use it at Internative

We use Terraform to build reproducible, auditable, and scalable infrastructure. It allows us to manage multi-cloud environments with confidence while reducing operational risk and configuration drift.