HCP Terraform

What do you like best about the product?

Terraform's best feature is its declarative syntax, allowing you to define infrastructure as code and manage it consistently across multiple providers.

What do you dislike about the product?

Terraform can struggle with state file management, especially in collaborative environments, leading to potential conflicts or complexity.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Terraform solves infrastructure provisioning and management across multiple providers using a unified language. It benefits users by improving consistency, scalability, and automation, reducing manual effort and errors.

What do you like best about the product?

The easy way to set up and help to deploy several resources reducing the errors

What do you dislike about the product?

Lack of training access. Will like to have better support.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Errors to create several server , vms on the cloud on premise. Pre set up with a terraform file helps to avoid this .

What do you like best about the product?

One of the best benefits is the multi cloud we have to learn it only once then we can directly deploy resources on any cloud without any issues by just reading the document.

What do you dislike about the product?

I particularly have no dislikes it works very great.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work with virtual machines and kubernetes most of the time so creating it again and again by going through portal is tough with terraform it's just one command away.

What do you like best about the product?

Modular, Secure and Versatile. I can talk about tall the technical benefits of using Terraform but I will start with a soft skill that Terraform provides which is the ability to learn different cloud offerings. GUIs are made to simplify single deployments but when you are configuring a module you can see all the options you have for configuration. I will use Azure Storage Blobs as an example. In the GUI when you configure a storage blob by default it is open and available over the internet if you chose defaults. When you are configuring an Azure Storage blob in Terraform you can see how to quickly disable access from public, enforce TLS 1.2, add storage policies for data retention and many more. In short, it enables engineers to build right from the beggining.

Another favorite is integration. I can easily configure Terraform in Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git Actions and I can add code security so that I can get suggestions in CI/CD. Even when developing, the local IDEs have plugins to accelerate development with security like Snyk.

The HCL language also allows you do apply software development so you can have conditions, loops, functions and different styles of data inputs (stings, arrays, tuples, etc) for better code readability and structure.

What do you dislike about the product?

When new services come out in cloud providers it might take longer to get a module than using a cloud tool like Bicep or Cloudformation but you can always use the API modules and Hashicorp is good at releasing updates to new features.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Multi-cloud infrastructure as code.
- Compliance
- Security

What do you like best about the product?

Terrafom is very vast tool if we talk about infrastructure as code. It has not provider limit which i like the most because of that we can create our infrastructure on any cloud by just writing the code.

What do you dislike about the product?

In my point the major disadvantage about terraform is there is no built-in way to plan migrations across remote statefile of the resources.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I think terraform is simplifying the language of HCL also it providing more features to simplifying the code so that we have a clean IAC which everyone understands by just going through it.