Summary
In this chapter, you have learned about the need and the use cases of IaC tools such as Terraform. You have also learned how the managed Terraform service works on OCI by creating ORM stacks and applying jobs on top of them (in other words, the stacks). You have further learned how a customer can quickly get started with Resource Discovery and Terraform configuration. Not only that, but you have also learned how you can use development tools such as SCM to check in your code and use that code to spin up infrastructure. This is required for adopting a DevOps culture within the software development life cycle.
In the next chapter, you will see how you can use the OCI CLI, API, and software development kit (SDK) to automate processes that you have been carrying out so far using the console.