The article discusses the evolution of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) from manual server configurations to automation tools like Chef, Puppet, and Terraform. As infrastructure grew, these tools allowed engineers to define machine states in code, stored in Git. Terraform, a standout IaC tool, introduced a descriptive language but lacked a central registry. The emergence of Kubernetes and projects like Crossplane aims to address these limitations, offering centralization and automated state reconciliation. The acquisition of Hashicorp by IBM and the community's response by creating OpenTofu further illustrates the ongoing evolution and challenges in infrastructure management.
In the early days of IT, manual configuration held sway; however, as infrastructure expanded, Infrastructure-as-Code emerged, transforming server management and scalability through automation.
Terraform revolutionized Infrastructure-as-Code with its descriptive language, enabling infrastructure management directly in code, yet lacks central registry features compared to Kubernetes solutions.
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