There are many things I admire and feel grateful for when it comes to Linus Torvalds, but two stand above everything else. His contributions to the modern world through the Linux operating system and Git have fundamentally shaped how we build, run, and collaborate on technology today. Together, they form the invisible backbone of modern computing, from servers and cloud…
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For audience: curious beginners and busy engineers.Reading time: ~8–10 mins. TL;DR Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that lets you declare the cloud resources you want (networks, servers, databases, DNS, Kubernetes, etc.), then plans and applies the minimal changes to reach that desired state—reliably and repeatably. What is infrastructure-as-code (IaC)? In DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of…