Why Terraform is used in Azure?

Infrastructure automation for Microsoft Azure with the help of Terraform as a tool. Terraform is an open-source tool for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.

Terraform is a tool from HashiCorp that can be used to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure easily by defining configuration files. It is similar to OpenStack Heat. However, unlike Heat which is specific to OpenStack,

Terraform is provider-agnostic and can work with multiple cloud platforms such as OpenStack, AWS and VMware. This blog will give an overview of how to use Terraform with OpenStack. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the most basic cloud model, giving you the ability to create your own infrastructure resources such as networks, firewalls, load balancers, different kind of storage and of course servers.