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Leading Infrastructure As Code management tool
What do you like best about the product?
Hashicorp made it opensource so we're free to write our own providers.
It has large community and a huge set of providers which contains ton of modules.
It has large community and a huge set of providers which contains ton of modules.
What do you dislike about the product?
Functionality gets changed in every version of Terraform, If you've written IaC in version x than there are higher chances that IaC won't work in the newer versions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In my org there was a challenge to write IaC for the existing deployed infrastructure and terraform helped us, it's very easy to write IaC for an existing infrastructure using Terraform.
Using terraform now it's very easy to figure out the bugs in infrastructure configuration.
Using terraform now it's very easy to figure out the bugs in infrastructure configuration.
Infrastructure as code
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to deploy replicable infrastructure quickly and easily
documentation on there website for each provider also has examples which makes it a lot easier to learn
Can be used with a lot of different providers unlike somthing like cloudformation which can only be used with AWS
documentation on there website for each provider also has examples which makes it a lot easier to learn
Can be used with a lot of different providers unlike somthing like cloudformation which can only be used with AWS
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes hard to get it to do exactly what you want it to do due to it being there own programming language
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using this to make sure that are environments are all the same. when we need to deploy a new environment using terraform saves us around 5 days of manual work and means that little things dont get forgotten about or missed
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend using terraform over somthing like cloudformation on AWS once you have learnt how it works you can use it with different providers
Use terraform
What do you like best about the product?
Declarative style for describing infrastructures.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes after application resources need to be recreated while in fact this is not really necessary. The good thing is, as versions progress, this happens less often.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making infrastructure reviewable, auditable and immutable.
Automated Deployments to Cloud Easily
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to deploy the same infrastructure across many accounts
Easy to write syntax and understand
Easy to write syntax and understand
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation is a bit poor. This could be improved with viable options for parameters
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deploying infrastructure automatically across multiple accounts, not having to manually click and worrying about human error when deploying
Great
What do you like best about the product?
Terraform gives you the ability to create your infrastructure. I have used terraform for creating infrastructure on AWS.
What do you dislike about the product?
I haven't faced any specific issues, as of now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows to write the script with inbuilt modules to create components, taking an example of AWS
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to secure your infrastructure without allowing changes from user interface that are more vulnerable and can affect the whole infra, instead go for a terraform that can plan your needs , apply them potentially
Terraform the great IAAC tool
What do you like best about the product?
First of all i would like to thank hashi corp for the getting this tool in to the market
The reason for this statement is
I really like the tool the way it organised in terms of setting up the infrastructure
I am part of the multiple projects were we use aws and gcp cloud provides for my projects.
Initially we use the AWS cloud formation in the aws cloud and similarly deployment manager in the gcp, were i could find very difficult using those, it has the different interface and the usage is completely different, Were when i start using the terraform i really loved it the way it works and the options it has i.e. providers, resources and etc and it is easy to write and understanding it uses the HCL(Hashi corp configuration Language)
Here are the below attracts more
1) Mentioning the Resources and providers
2) We can Destroy the infrastructure at a ease way
3) Liked the Desired state and the current state, i.e. when any manual changes happen in the console level and when we check using terraform refresh it updates in the tfstate file, this is basically the current state and easily know what are the changes it was done
4) As per the experience i have and faced in providing the version number while implementing the terraform,
Example : when we are setting the dev env the provider version is different and when setting up the production the provider version is different so it might break the chain and some resources might have the higher update.
5) It gives us the option to check even in the 3 rd party types and HCl is verifying those too.
6) were we used the from a file concept i.e. we use main.tf, variables.tf and dev.tfars similarlly qa.tfvars and etc.
7) We use to enable the logs for tracking purpose
8) Using terraform we can taint the resources and unwanted things can be easily destroyed.
9) It has the good feature of lock state
10) We can add the new resources in the middle of the working env were it does not effect the present infrastructure
The reason for this statement is
I really like the tool the way it organised in terms of setting up the infrastructure
I am part of the multiple projects were we use aws and gcp cloud provides for my projects.
Initially we use the AWS cloud formation in the aws cloud and similarly deployment manager in the gcp, were i could find very difficult using those, it has the different interface and the usage is completely different, Were when i start using the terraform i really loved it the way it works and the options it has i.e. providers, resources and etc and it is easy to write and understanding it uses the HCL(Hashi corp configuration Language)
Here are the below attracts more
1) Mentioning the Resources and providers
2) We can Destroy the infrastructure at a ease way
3) Liked the Desired state and the current state, i.e. when any manual changes happen in the console level and when we check using terraform refresh it updates in the tfstate file, this is basically the current state and easily know what are the changes it was done
4) As per the experience i have and faced in providing the version number while implementing the terraform,
Example : when we are setting the dev env the provider version is different and when setting up the production the provider version is different so it might break the chain and some resources might have the higher update.
5) It gives us the option to check even in the 3 rd party types and HCl is verifying those too.
6) were we used the from a file concept i.e. we use main.tf, variables.tf and dev.tfars similarlly qa.tfvars and etc.
7) We use to enable the logs for tracking purpose
8) Using terraform we can taint the resources and unwanted things can be easily destroyed.
9) It has the good feature of lock state
10) We can add the new resources in the middle of the working env were it does not effect the present infrastructure
What do you dislike about the product?
Only one thing in terms of dis like is the concept called import
Eg : if any one set up the any resources and if we want the same in terms of the HCL we have to write by checking the resources and it is tricky and not a good practice too. i feel there is a next release i.e. terraform 0.13 which is releasing on Aug 12th 2020
Expecting that this new feature should automate like entering terraform import should get the existing resources or infrastructure.
Eg : if any one set up the any resources and if we want the same in terms of the HCL we have to write by checking the resources and it is tricky and not a good practice too. i feel there is a next release i.e. terraform 0.13 which is releasing on Aug 12th 2020
Expecting that this new feature should automate like entering terraform import should get the existing resources or infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As i said Initially i was using the aws cloud formation for setting up the infrastructure in AWS, Similarly using deployment manager in GCP, So it avoids using the multiple tools and made it easy with the HCL.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Folks, If you want to set up the infrastructure then think Terraform, it really reduce our effort in lots and ease of setting up the things and exposure also great once the engineer habituate with this tool def. it solves many issues and made it simple.
I really thank full to hashi corp for getting this kind of tool in the market and made is success.
I really thank full to hashi corp for getting this kind of tool in the market and made is success.
Best and user friendly
What do you like best about the product?
It's very easy to use and learn. Useful across all cloud platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation can be modified a bit. This will help to beginners.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to deploy VMs very consistent manner.
My experience with terraform has been pretty good so far
What do you like best about the product?
Shorter learning curve, if you are already familiar similar stuff like CloudFormation.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think more and better quality tutorial and courses would definitely help
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automate my deployments on AWS
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would highly recommend using Terraform for all cloud computing professionals. Although I use it only for AWS right now, but, I believe it will be much easier to switch to any other cloud provider with help of Terraform
create cloud Infrastructure in minimum time
What do you like best about the product?
1) Infrastructure as a code.
2) Easy templates and module.
3) Time saving in creating multiple infrastructure over supported cloud platform.
4) Template logic and code is user-friendly an easy to understand.
5) Best use cases can be obtain with AWS cloud.
2) Easy templates and module.
3) Time saving in creating multiple infrastructure over supported cloud platform.
4) Template logic and code is user-friendly an easy to understand.
5) Best use cases can be obtain with AWS cloud.
What do you dislike about the product?
None as per now. Feature releases could be less frequent so that end client could do required version based changes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) Automation of cloud based infrastructure.
2) Cloud resources creation in less time by using variables and data within workspaces.
3) Single template can be used in multiple environments.
4) Manual intervention over cloud become less.
5) Integrate your terraform template and code with repository system so that user activity over resource creation and update can be easily track .
2) Cloud resources creation in less time by using variables and data within workspaces.
3) Single template can be used in multiple environments.
4) Manual intervention over cloud become less.
5) Integrate your terraform template and code with repository system so that user activity over resource creation and update can be easily track .
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to save time in cloud based infrastructure and resource automation then should try Terraform. Easy to implement and use.
Worth investing time in for AWS
What do you like best about the product?
Not having to use the AWS web console really helped piece together AWS concepts.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is quite a steep up front learning cost.
It's hard to tinker with it as compared to
It's hard to tinker with it as compared to
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing multiple identical environments in AWS, e.g. for development, staging, production, and tesing ing new features.
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