IaC Use Cases

This section will cover the most important use cases where IaC adds value and increases the developer’s or team’s productivity.

Multi-Cloud Deployments

For mission-critical applications, provisioning infrastructure in multi-cloud deployments will increase fault tolerance and reduce their dependency on one particular cloud provider so that they can be highly available if there are any issues. But multi-cloud deployments come with the increased complexity of handling each provider with their own setup, different tools/services, and different configuration procedures. IaC tools such as Terraform allow us to have the same workflow to deploy applications in multi-cloud environments and handle cross-cloud dependencies.

Application Deployments, Scaling, and Monitoring Tools

IaC tools can be used to efficiently deploy, release, scale, and monitor infrastructure for multi-tier applications. The multi-tier application architecture usually consists of a...