Understanding the use cases of ORM

Oracle provides a managed service of Terraform called ORM, which manages infrastructure using HashiCorp Terraform. It uses templates to define configurations, and you can reuse those templates as needed. It's a free service and you need to pay only for infrastructure, not for service. ORM is deeply integrated with OCI services, such as identity, security, metering, monitoring, and tagging.

Oracle built this ORM service on unmodified open source software, meaning there is no lock-in and you get simple migrations from or to any private and third-party clouds. Here, you can see a high-level diagram of the ORM stack. This workflow depicts how you can use ORM to deploy a web application to different environments on OCI:

Figure 9.3 – Use case of IaC

Here are the benefits of using ORM:

• As with Terraform, you can use ORM to unlock infrastructure automation capabilities that can help you to standardize your...