Infrastructure Automation and Terraform
Describing your servers, networks, storage and cloud resources as Terraform files kept beside your code, so a change to infrastructure is reviewed like any other change and a lost environment can be rebuilt from the same definition.
Infrastructure as a File, Not a Memory
When a server, network rule or database was set up by hand, recreating it depends on whoever did it remembering how. Writing that same setup as Terraform files means the definition exists independently of any one person, and a fresh environment can be produced from it on demand.
What Gets Written as Code
Servers and Compute
Virtual machines or managed compute instances, including their size and the software they start with.
Networking and Firewall Rules
Which ports, services and IP ranges can reach which machines, defined explicitly rather than configured once by hand.
Storage and Databases
Managed database instances, object storage and their access permissions.
DNS and Certificates
Domain records and certificate provisioning, so a new environment gets a working address without a manual DNS change.
How We Introduce Terraform Without Disruption
Importing Your Existing Resources
Current servers and services are brought under Terraform's management as they stand, without recreating them from scratch.
State File Management
The record of what Terraform manages is stored securely and shared safely across your team, so two people do not overwrite each other's changes.
Modules for Repeated Patterns
Common setups — a standard application server, a standard database — are written once as a module and reused for every new environment.
Change Review Before Apply
Proposed infrastructure changes are reviewed before they run, the same way a code change is reviewed before merging.
What This Solves
- An environment configured years ago by someone no longer with the company.
- A new environment that takes days to assemble by hand and is never quite identical to the last one.
- Server changes made directly on a live machine with no record of who changed what or when.
Frequently asked questions
What drives the cost of writing infrastructure as Terraform code?
The number of distinct resources in your current infrastructure, how many of them need to be imported from an existing hand-built setup, and how many environments the definitions need to cover.
What drives how long converting infrastructure to code takes?
How much of your current infrastructure is undocumented and has to be discovered before it can be written down, since importing an unknown setup takes longer than describing a clean one.
Can this work with the cloud account we already have?
Yes. Terraform manages the account and resources you already have; it does not require moving provider or opening a new account unless your current setup genuinely cannot support what you need.
Is there a risk of Terraform breaking something that already works?
The import and first-run steps are done against a plan you review before anything changes, and we practise the process on a non-critical environment first wherever one is available.
Who owns the Terraform files and state afterwards?
You do. The files sit in your repository and the state is stored under your own cloud or storage account, so you are never locked out of your own infrastructure definition.
What access do we need to hand over?
Access to your current cloud account or servers, and a rough list of what exists — even an incomplete one is a usable starting point.
Does this replace our hosting provider?
No. Terraform automates how resources are created and changed on the provider you already use; it is not a hosting service itself.
Tell us what you need.
Send a short brief and one of our engineers will come back to you — usually the same day.
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