Infrastructure Governance in Terraform

Introduction: The Evolution of Infrastructure Management

In the early days of cloud computing, managing infrastructure was often a manual process. An engineer would log into a web console, click through menus, and provision resources one by one. While this worked for small setups, it lacked scalability, consistency, and, most importantly, oversight. As organizations grew, this manual approach led to "configuration drift," where the actual state of the cloud diverged from what was documented, creating massive security vulnerabilities and operational headaches.