🔧 Implementing an IaC Platform With Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab

Given the need to create infrastructure across multiple environments while ensuring standardization and effective monitoring, it becomes crucial to provision these environments securely. To achieve this, adopting an immutable infrastructure approach, where environments are provisioned as code, is essential.

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate a possible approach to achieving this by using GitLab’s structures to enforce templates and standards, Terraform to apply and maintain standards across servers, and Ansible for software provisioning and configuration, utilizing a shared roles model across repositories. To manage the state of machines with Terraform, we use MinIO, as it enables this implementation on-premises.