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by marcinzm 2130 days ago
That works when you have one container. When you have 200 and fifty databases and four identical environments (prod, qa, staging, dev) and so on it becomes a lot more error prone. These systems exist for those use cases.

Granted even with one container and a single DB I found terraform useful as I don't have to fiddle with whatever DB, container, etc. settings there are every time. I also prefer to not have to memorize or figure out a UI I use once every other month. Too many UIs across too many things.