The wind is automation’s invisible hand

Terraform is what happens when sysadmins get tired of manually building servers and decide to automate themselves into early retirement. It’s like teaching a very literal genie to build your infrastructure, just be careful what you wish for, because that “vultr_instance.evil_c2” you just deployed might come with an unexpected “billing.mortgage_refinance” attached. The real magic happens when your infrastructure can burn itself down and rebuild faster than the blue team can say “wait, how did they…”