Terraform - Automate your company's IT
April 12, 2017
Terraform - Automate your company's IT
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Terraform
Terraform is used by our monitoring team and I used Terraform to architect it to connect to OpenStack and spin up VMs for monitoring. The monitoring team uses it for installing/configuring monitoring software. Again Terraform's script has everything to stage the VM, connect to Chef and install/configure all the required software. Terraform addresses our on-demand provisioning issue, which in turn helps in IT flexibility to cope with business demands.
- It helps make VM provisioning easier.
- It helps integrate CICD software pipeline to provisioning, thereby reducing the time to quickly standup a server/service.
- It helps make clustering of boxes easier.
- Provisioning bare metal.
- Replacing Chef as the automation/compliance software for enterprises.
- Get away from that single state file dependency. If someone accidently deletes the state file or that file becomes corrupt, the entire environment state is lost and we have to rebuild the whole infrastructure.
- Provisioning SLA times was reduced.
- Standard Terraform scripts helped standardize the configuration.
- Clustering applications was easier.
Centralized and standard configuration. Ease of VM provisioning.