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Why Do We Need Terraform?
This chapter will help you understand how infrastructure provisioning was done in different periods of IT history, the challenges associated with it, and how infrastructure automation tools solved those problems.
You will learn what Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is and its advantages when compared to the manual provisioning of infrastructure. Then, this chapter will discuss the various tools/services available on the market for Infrastructure as Code, and their pros and cons with respect to Terraform.
Further, the chapter will discuss the Terraform tool and its advantages over other tools/services used for Infrastructure as Code. Finally, the chapter will conclude by providing an overview of the licensing change made ...
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