Preface
Infrastructure as Code has emerged as the de facto method for provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure. While this approach has been around for a while, it has matured and refined over the years. Initially, it followed largely imperative programming models and employed agents to facilitate change. However, with the advent of API-based cloud services, it has transformed into a primarily declarative configuration of desired states that are translated into cloud services and their configuration—of which Terraform is the gold standard.
Terraform is crucial for both application development teams, who create applications and services that delight end users, and platform teams, who empower enterprises and organizations with smooth ...
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