Tech Bytes: Using HashiCorp’s Terraform Cloud For Collaboration And Governance (Sponsored)

Terraform Cloud, from HashiCorp, is a SaaS-based service that provides governance, auditing, and collaboration for your infrastructure-as-code initiatives. While there are a host of open source tools for infrastructure as code, you can run into problem of configuration conflicts, delivery of changes to production, and security and auditing of who made infrastructure changes.
Terraform Cloud creates a collaboration environment that includes CI frameworks, management of infrastructure state or inventory, change audits, and identity and access management.
Our guest to walk us through Terraform Cloud is Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp.
We discuss:

* What infrastructure as code means
* How to use Terraform for infrastructure automation
* Using Terraform Cloud for collaboration, state management, auditing, and other capabilities
* More

Takeaways:

* Scaling and collaborating infrastructure as code practices means building frameworks to support continued development.
* These include configuration and include deployment through pipelines, ability to produce, consume, and deploy modules of configuration, and governance through access control and policy as code.
* By using Terraform for infrastructure as code configuration and Terraform Cloud for collaboration and governance, you can experiment and practice these patterns for any other infrastructure automation.

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Sign up for Terraform Cloud. Free tier includes state management, remote execution, and private module registry. Team and governance features available for a 30-day free trial.
HashiCorp Learn lab environment – HashiCorp
Terraform and Terraform Cloud  – Terraform.io
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Rosemary Wang on LinkedIn