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Terraform — Things are different now.

Have you ever been frustrated that you misconfigured some part of your cloud infrastructure and ended up troubleshooting for hours because of a simple fat-fingered mistake? It has happened to me more than I would like to admit, and I got tired of it.

At first, I was mainly looking at creating ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates because I thought Chef, Ansible, and Terraform would be more complicated.

And most of all, I wanted the infrastructure to live on, and be married with, the code repository forever and ever.

In the case of creating that infrastructure, Terraform would determine that the resource group should be created first because it’s a required input for the other resources we are creating.