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  • Terraform is part of a movement called “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC) which allows engineers to define their cloud infrastructure using code.

    This is extremely useful as it allows you to:

    • version infrastructure changes

    • automate resource and configuration creation and management

    • have reproducible environments (think production and staging envs, or deploying a new production env to another datacenter)

    Terraform (and OpenTofu) is different to most IaC project as it is agnostic of cloud providers: you can use it to deploy infrastructure to multiple providers, where their competitors are limited to their own platform (I think of AWS’s Cloud Development Kit)