In-house infrastructure orchestration codebases frequently become a time sink to maintain and troubleshoot. Infrastructure orchestration platforms are appearing, promising to standardize and productize various aspects of infrastructure code delivery and deployment workflows. These include build tools like Terragrunt and Terraspace, services from IaC tool vendors such as Terraform Cloud and Pulumi Cloud as well as tool-agnostic platforms and services like env0 and Spacelift. There is a rich ecosystem of Terraform-specific orchestration tools and services, often called TACOS (Terraform Automation and Collaboration Software), including Atlantis, Digger, Scalr, Terramate and Terrateam. Each of these platforms enables different workflows, including GitOps, Continuous Delivery and compliance as code. We welcome the growth of solutions in this space. We recommend infrastructure and platform engineering teams explore how to use them to reduce the amount of non-differentiating custom code they need to develop and maintain their infrastructure. Standardization of how infrastructure code is structured, shared, delivered and deployed should also create opportunities for the emergence of an ecosystem of compatible tools for testing, measuring and monitoring infrastructure.
