Infrastructure

Introduction to Terraform

by Archie To, 18 June 2024

Terraform is a very popular technology used both in the industry and within the Research Computing Services (RCS) Team. We at ARC Software have used Terraform to build up STRAP and implemented scripts for Strapper to deploy applications onto STRAP (these apps are called Strapplications). So what is Terraform? What makes it so popular?

What is Terraform?

Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that allows users to define and provision infrastructure using a high-level configuration language.