In the rapidly evolving cloud landscape of modern IT infrastructure management, the synergy between HashiCorp Terraform & Ansible has emerged as a powerful combination, enabling organizations to achieve a high level of automation, scalability, and efficiency. The audience will deep-dive into the world of "Infrastructure as Code (IaC)" with both tools. Furthermore, it will be demonstrated how Terraform & Ansible, when used in tandem, form a dynamic duo that addresses the challenges of provisioning, configuration, management as well as a full “end-to-end” automation.

The session will start with a comprehensive introduction to IaC, explaining the importance and goals in the context of cloud application workloads. Attendees will gain insights into the core principles of IaC and its important role in infrastructure automation, consistency, and version control.

Moving forward, the focus will shift to Terraform, exploring its declarative approach to infrastructure provisioning using HCL. Attendees will be guided through real-world examples, showcasing how Terraform simplifies the deployment and scaling of infrastructure across various cloud providers and environments. The second part of the talk will aim at Ansible, emphasizing its strengths in configuration management and orchestration. Attendees will learn how Ansible streamlines application deployment, configuration updates, and system management, making complex tasks manageable through simple, human-readable playbooks.

The main part of the session will explore the integration points between Terraform & Ansible, explaining how these tools complement each other seamlessly. Practical demonstrations will showcase the integration workflows, emphasizing the collaborative benefits of using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and Ansible for configuration management.

By the end of the session, the audience will get an idea of how to implement the IaC using both tools including all needed recommendations, real-world use cases, best practices, examples, pitfalls to avoid and practical tips to make the cloud journey successful with fully automated cloud infrastructures.