Introduction

Overview

Writing configuration files that can help us automate our infrastructure isn’t the end of the story. It’s also important to find ways to improve how these configuration files are written and fitted together.

To take full advantage of the power of IaC for reliability, cost-saving, and faster deployment, we need to broaden our perspective and adopt a couple of strategic approaches.

Optimizing our IaC setup

By the time we start employing IaC, we already have leverage, which is the automation of our infrastructure. But beyond the need to achieve automation, we have to drive effectiveness and also ensure we address the security concerns that can arise. Some of the steps we can take are listed below:

• Ensuring reusability using Terraform modules
• Separating configuration setups using Terraform workspaces
• Employing the use of other

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