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Date Published
Author
David Wright
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704
Language
English
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Summary

HashiCorp Terraform is a key product to adopt for improving the speed of provisioning Microsoft Fabric instances across infrastructure in a standardized, best-practice way. The Terraform provider for Microsoft Fabric offers several benefits including automation, scalability, governance, and integration with existing CI/CD pipelines, enabling organizations to streamline their data platform infrastructure management. It addresses common challenges such as eliminating ClickOps, scaling with confidence, and ensuring governance, making it suitable for various scenarios like governance and compliance, deployment at scale, DevOps and Infrastructure Lifecycle Management, and tenant management. To get started, users can install the provider by copying and pasting code into their Terraform configuration and running `terraform init`, followed by a step-by-step guide to start using Terraform with Microsoft Fabric. Future iterations aim to integrate HashiCorp Vault for dynamic secrets management, access control, and encryption workflows to enhance data security and compliance across platforms.