Joseph Kunzler

We use Terraform because we needed a way to automate the process of building and deploying feature branches. We wanted to hide the complexity such that when a dev creates a PR, it triggers a build and deployment without the dev having to worry about any of the 'plumbing' going on behind the scenes. Terraform allows us to automate the process of provisioning DNS records, Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)'s. It also makes it easy to tear it all down when finished. We also like that it supports multiple clouds, which is why we chose to use it over AWS CloudFormation.

We use AWS CloudFormation because we needed a way to quickly and efficiently create & deploy lambda functions. We found two frameworks that work nicely as 'syntactic sugar' on top of CloudFormation - One of them being AWS SAM, and the other being Serverless Framework. We currently use the Serverless Framework because of it's multi-cloud capabilities.