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"Terraform is a good tool for infrastructure provisioning. However to test terraform it could be pretty difficult. So you will create some terraform scripts and upload to the cloud a run some slow Jenkins job?"

One can test Terraform scripts without requiring it be hooked into Jenkins. If I have an account with a supported provider, testing during development of said script(s) isn't really that hard.

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Yes, it's possible to test it is local if you have credentials. But for security reasons, lots of times companies don't provide credentials. Also, it's your local dev machine you don't want mess it up right? So docker is awesome being ephemeral.

Sometimes when you use PACKER and you have a SHARED infrastructure a build could take 40mim to run all the things with Terraform/Ansible that kind of a mainframe :D Unfortunately this exit :(

I'd also add that as software is going CI/CD, so is infrastructure. Good points in this post OP.

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