What is terraform & chef?

Configuration management and provisioning tools such as Terraform and Chef enable infrastructure automation using the “infrastructure as code” approach. These tools automate the process of infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and maintaining compliance of base systems – VMs and cloud instances – and the applications that run on them.

What is terraform and how does it work?

Terraform allows you to write code to define and provision infrastructure for the cloud, virtual machines, and on-premises machines. Terraform is not a configuration management tool, it is responsible for deploying, maintaining, and destroying the infrastructure that servers and applications run on.

How do I enforce infrastructure configuration compliance with terraform?

Use Terraform preconditions and Terraform Cloud run tasks with OPA policy checks to enforce infrastructure configuration compliance.

How does chef Inspec work with terraform?

Terraform uses descriptive files to define system resources, and Chef InSpec can be used with Terraform in two different ways to confirm compliance: Audit provisioned infrastructure: When developing Terraform code for repos, Chef InSpec can be used to verify that resources have been provisioned/updated to match the tested and approved criteria.