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Terraform 1.0 Reflects What HashiCorp Has Learned About Infrastructure-as-C

The adoption of infrastructure as code (IaC) in many ways remains a work in progress, as providers respond to feedback from site reliability engineers (SREs) and DevOps teams on how to simplify and standardize the provisioning and managing of infrastructure. It is in this context that HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.0 — which is particularly popular for cloud native migrations — as it seeks to improve its IaC platform for interoperability, ease of upgrades and maintenance for automation workflows, Meghan Liese, senior director of product marketing for Terraform, explained. Liese said what HashiCorp has learned from Terraform adoption thus far is that “infrastructure automation is a four-phased journey” for organizations in order to: While Terraform OSS addresses the first phase, Liese said Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise offer the capabilities “to build, standardize and innovate with infrastructure as code for teams and organizations at any scale.”

In addition to devoting engineering and product teams to the open source releases, HashiCorp also works with cloud providers for Terraform’s integration with environments on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud and others, Liese said.

They then rely on Terraform Cloud (SaaS) or Enterprise (self-hosted) to standardize their usage of Terraform for security, compliance and management of their cloud spends.