Terraform is a tool used by Atlassian for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. It manages both popular cloud services and in-house solutions through its infrastructure-as-code approach. Atlassian uses Terraform for its build pipelines via a Python wrapper and fork of Terraform, taking advantage of its modular and extendable design as well as its large, active community for support.

1. Terraform at Atlassian
OTTO JONGERIUS • BUILD ENGINEER • ATLASSIAN • @XZU

2. Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and
versioning infrastructure safely and
efficiently. Terraform can manage existing
and popular service providers as well as
custom in-house solutions.”
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3. Why we love Terraform
• Infrastructure as code
• Execution plans show you
what will happen
• Resource graph makes it fast.
• Fast paced project, easy to
contribute.

4. Cons

5. Young DSL

6. Depends on external APIs

7. Hard to keep up

8. Bugs

9. Secrets

10. Pros

11. Infrastructure as code

12. Modular

13. HCL

14. Large and active community

15. Extendable

16. Terraform at Atlassian

17. Terraform at Build Engineering

18. Python wrapper

19. Pipeline

20. Fork

21. Thank you!
OTTO JONGERIUS • BUILD ENGINEER • ATLASSIAN • @XZU
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