[thomasmcfarlane]

It's much more about standardising the approach within a team, and not needing to know your target infrastructure state. Especially at the stage of a scale up, you'll get a lot of differing views as where to write your scripts - Terraform provides tooling for a specific use case where you don't need to reinvent everything.

At Nimbus[1], we have been trialling using Terraform for template definitions as users are mostly familiar with it, and it allows them to integrate more easily with existing CI/CD processes. They can easily just add a new Nimbus Workspace to their Terraform and have it spin up a new development environment when their CI requires it.

[1]: https://usenimbus.com - Easy remote development infra for teams