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Research Paper | Information Technology | India | Volume 11 Issue 2, February 2022 | Rating: 4.8 / 10
Harnessing the Power of Terraform: Infrastructure as Code for Agile DevOps
Abstract: Terraform is an open - source tool that automates infrastructure management through code. It has gained much importance in the DevOps community because it is cloud - agnostic and efficient at providing infrastructure. Among the many benefits, Terraform enables users to manage multi - platform infrastructures consistently and declaratively. This makes the facilitation of infrastructure setup, management, and scaling possible. This is essential to organizations that require fast deployments and reliable scaling. The reproducibility in infrastructure due to the declarative nature of Terraform reduces manual errors and maintains consistency across several environments. Moreover, Terraform has versioning capabilities that enable teams to track changes in infrastructure as a way of auditing for troubleshooting and regulatory purposes. As organizations' interest in Agile increases, Terraform provides the requisite tools to manage infrastructure and code coherently with the speed and tempo required for modern software development. The place of Terraform in improving DevOps practices is explored here by considering usage, impacts, and challenges across agile settings. These findings highlight that Terraform is a powerful enabler of the DevOps ecosystem, providing a seamless and automated infrastructure management process. With this, Terraform minimizes the dreaded complexities of manually provisioning the infrastructure, enhancing the DevOps operations manifold's agility and scalability. This paper discusses how Terraform can revolutionize the way DevOps is being carried out in the case of continuous deployment pipelines and replicating the same in multi - cloud environments for infrastructure reliability.
Keywords: Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Agile DevOps, automation, cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, scalability, infrastructure consistency
Edition: Volume 11 Issue 2, February 2022,
Pages: 1367 - 1372