What Is Terraform and How Infrastructure as Code Works

Every cloud resource you have ever clicked into existence in a web console (a VM, a load balancer, a DNS record) can also be described in a text file and created by running one command. The file lives in git, gets reviewed in a pull request, and reproduces the same setup on a second account without anyone remembering which nine settings they changed by hand. That is what Terraform does. ...

September 17, 2026 · 7 min · 1487 words · SpaghettiCoder