Accelerating cloud transformation with Terraform: A World Bank success story
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World Bank reports building a self‑service platform using Terraform modules and an internal developer portal, wired to Terraform Cloud workspaces, Git VCS, Argo CD and security scans so plans gate deployments. Claims 80x faster deployments and also states provisioning drops from five days to 30 minutes, with 27,000 cloud resources deployed and 700 apps supported. Focus is reusable templates, policy‑as‑code enforcement, staged fleet rollouts and day‑two automation.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 3:58Platform engineering strategy
- 6:33Terraform modules and templates
- 8:42Self-service workflow
- 11:55Application platform details
- 15:47Data platform overview
- 17:33Platform engineers' workflow
- 18:58Key results and lessons learned
- 20:45Final takeaways
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