My first exposure to Terraform was when I started to work with data in the AWS cloud. As a Cloud Data Engineer I was expected to cover a wide range of infrastructure provisioning so I found myself having to learn rather more about cloud infrastructure than I had expected.
Understanding the problem
We want repeatability when deploying infrastructure across environments. A web based Cloud/SaaS Console remains useful for visualising your infrastructure but for actual maintenance we must have infrastructure-as-code (IAC). This is just as we have SQL scripts to develop and maintain our databases.
When I started using AWS, it had