Introduction
Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp that allows teams to define, provision, and manage infrastructure using a declarative configuration language.
Terraform is a core part of Cake’s infrastructure strategy. It enables teams to version, review, and reuse infrastructure definitions just like application code—making infrastructure changes safe, predictable, and reproducible across development, staging, and production environments.
The Cake platform’s uses for Terraform include:
Declarative Infrastructure Management: Define what infrastructure should exist, and let Terraform handle the creation, update, and deletion lifecycle.
Stateful Execution: Maintains a state file that maps real-world infrastructure to code, enabling accurate diffs, plan previews, and incremental updates.
Multi-Cloud and Provider-Agnostic: Supports a wide range of providers—including AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and third-party services—through an extensible plugin architecture.
Modularity and Reuse: Encourages reuse of infrastructure components via modules, reducing duplication and enforcing standards across teams and services.
Collaboration and Automation: Integrates with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., GitHub Actions) to enable collaborative workflows, code review, and automated deployment.
At Cake, Terraform is used to provision everything from cloud-native resources (e.g., EKS clusters, VPCs, IAM roles) to platform services (e.g., databases, monitoring stacks, DNS). It plays a vital role in enforcing consistency across environments, managing sensitive resources securely, and reducing manual toil
By leveraging Terraform, Cake ensures that infrastructure is defined as code, reviewable like code, and deployable with confidence—laying the foundation for reliable and scalable platform operations.