Stop Manually Creating Your AWS Infrastructure. Use Terraform!
Last Updated on August 19, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Paul Iusztin
Originally published on Towards AI.
Terraform 101: How to Use Terraform as an MLE to Automate a Production-Ready AWS Infrastructure
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The one tool that ML/MLOps engineers underestimate is Terraform.
Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that lets you define your infrastructure in several declarative files and create, update, or destroy it with just a few CLI commands.
Thus, you can easily replicate the same ML infrastructure in multiple environments (production, testing, staging, etc.) without making even one manual click!
Also, you will stop worrying at night if you close all your EC2 machines, which will eat up your wallet. You will always use ONLY the… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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