Closing thoughts on the future of Terraform

If you invest some efforts in the tool and introduce it into a large organization, then you should consider many factors. After all, you don't want this tool to be suddenly abandoned by all developers and deal with an expensive process of replacing it. That is unlikely to happen with Terraform though. The company behind it seems to be growing strong, adoption of its tools grows, and more and more third-party developers contribute their code to Terraform, Consul, Packer, and others. But in which direction will it exactly grow? We can only guess, of course, but let's try anyway.

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