How I Learned to Love Terraform (And Why You Should Too)

When I started to learn about AWS, I started by tinkering around in the AWS Management Console. I thought how cool it was that I could enable and deploy services with a simple set of presses of buttons and all the options that it offered. But as I continued my cloud journey, I realized how onerous it can be to figure out all the settings and make sure that they’re the same for all the services you want to use. This is especially important if an error happens and you don’t know what’s happening. It can take forever to properly fix the issue and deploy what’s needed. I knew I needed a fast way, and that’s when I learned about Terraform. Terraform has been a game-changer for me with regards to deploying my infrastructure. No longer do I have to log in, deal with passwords and MFA, and all the buttons I could want if I want to make changes. Now I can simply edit a few files, run a few commands, and voila! Everything’s done for me by Terraform, and all I have to do is check to make sure I d