One goal I set for myself this year for all my development projects: managing infrastructure provisioning from the beginning using Infrastructure as Code (IAC).

Why?

👉 It forces me to define the architecture of my application from the start:

• Is it a service running on a provisioned EC2 instance 24/7?
• Is it an ECS task triggered by EventBridge?
• Are there Lambdas behind an API Gateway?

💡 By the way, I clarify my project requirements better: Do I need high availability? Do I have a certain tolerance for errors? Latency considerations? Resource constraints to consider?

👉 By provisioning with Terraform, I have a clear view of the cloud services I'm using. When I need to have an overview of my infrastructure resources, I just need to inspect my state file.

✅ Much clearer than any cloud provider's interface or CLI.

👉 AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, the day I come back to my project after a 3-month break, I can have the infrastructure up and running in 2 minutes.

✅ Implementing IAC is also the difference between a deployed project that will live on and dead code in a private repository.