Jocko Willink and Leif Babin wrote “Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win” in 2015 in an attempt to summarize the lessons they learned as followers and leaders in the United States Navy SEAL program and apply them to business. The idea is simple - exercise ownership over everything you do. In software development, one of the areas we can exercise this level of ownership is our application infrastructure. Enter Terraform: an open-source tool that has become the industry standard for infrastructure-as-code. You can write Azure, AWS, or GCP infrastructure. You can create feature flags or message queues. You can even use Terraform to order a pizza! It’s a dynamic tool that allows us to manage infrastructure at the most granular level possible. We will dive into Terraform and explain the concepts of state, providers, and write real-life examples, all tying back to the concept of extreme ownership and how managing our cloud infrastructure allows us to succeed in business