Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Evolution - A Comparative Study of Terraform and AWS Cloud Formation

Tapan Kumar Rath, Sibaram Prasad Panda

Abstract: Infrastructure management is one of the most important tasks in a cloud computing environment. Cloud infrastructures provide dynamic, distributed, and large-scale computing resources to help meet service scalability, availability, and performance requirements. Cloud providers offer their customers infrastructure resources that are managed and made available to users privately or publicly, charging based on consumption. The Infrastructure as a Service model provides virtualized computing resources stored in data centers and delivered on-demand using self-service capabilities, with provisioning options based on pre-allocated virtual machine images containing a guest operating system and any application software above that layer. Users who run their applications on the IaaS model are responsible for managing their operating systems and runtime software environments.

Keywords: Hashicorp, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CI/CD. Infrastructure as Code