It wasn't long ago that most infrastructure was managed by point-and-click user interfaces. Public clouds were new and still seen as immature for real world use. The most interesting innovation with public cloud for me is that it brought a complete API over all infrastructure components. I dreamed of "coding" my infrastructure in the same way I did my applications.
In 2014, I helped build and release Terraform to make this dream a reality. It separated itself from other tools by supporting all major cloud platforms and by having a community-extensible plugin model to support new systems. Over time, Terraform has grown to be officially supported by most major cloud platforms and hundreds of other vendors.
The utility of Terraform ...
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