Manually creating servers through a console works for one or two servers. With dozens of VMs and network rules, manual management becomes an error source. IaC solves this: infrastructure is described as code, stored in Git, and deployed automatically.
Why Terraform
All cloud support with one HCL language, declarative approach, change preview before applying (terraform plan), modularity for reuse.
State management
terraform.tfstate must be stored in a remote backend: Azure Blob Storage, AWS S3, or Terraform Cloud. Local storage is the most common mistake.
How SL Global Service solves this
SGS DevOps engineers implement Terraform + Ansible + GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps. A library of proven modules for Azure and AWS accelerates deployment from weeks to hours.
Start by describing at least one environment in Terraform — even partial automation reduces error risk.
“Infrastructure that cannot be reproduced from code in 30 minutes is technical debt that will become a business risk.”
Mykhailo Vihovskyi, member of the Supervisory Board, Intecracy Group