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During your time as an SRE at Glasswall Solutions from January 2022 to August 2022, how did you leverage Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments, and what benefits did this bring to the team?
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Okay, so at Glasswall Solutions, from January 2022 to August 2022, I was all about automating everything I could get my hands on. Infrastructure provisioning and deployments were prime candidates for automation, and Terraform was the perfect tool for the job. The traditional approach to infrastructure provisioning was manual and prone to errors. It also took a lot of time. With Terraform, I could define the infrastructure as code (IaC), which meant I could create and manage resources in a consistent and repeatable way. I created Terraform configurations for various environments, including development, staging, and production. These configurations defined the resources needed for each environment, such as virtual machines, networks, storage accounts, and security groups. By using Terraform, I could quickly provision these environments with a single command. I used various techniques to ensure that the IaC was configured properly, such as pre-commit hooks, linters and scanners.But the benefits didn't stop there. Terraform also allowed me to track changes to the infrastructure over time. Every time I made a change, Terraform would create a new version of the configuration. This made it easy to revert to previous versions if something went wrong.This had a huge impact on the team. It freed up time for engineers to focus on more strategic tasks, such as developing new features and improving application performance. It also reduced the risk of human error and improved the overall reliability of the infrastructure. Terraform also improved the agility and speed of the overall team, which was great.In addition to automating infrastructure provisioning, I also used Terraform to automate deployments. I integrated Terraform with our CI/CD pipeline, so that every time a new version of the application was released, Terraform would automatically update the infrastructure to support it. We also implemented Infrastructure testing, so that we could test the infrastructure before any new releases to ensure everything was ok. During my tenure as an SRE at Glasswall Solutions from January 2022 to August 2022, I used Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments. This allowed me to define infrastructure as code, enabling consistent and repeatable resource creation. By integrating Terraform with our CI/CD pipeline, I streamlined deployments and reduced the risk of human error, freeing up engineers to focus on strategic tasks and improving overall reliability.