What infrastructure as code automation tools do you use for deploying and managing environments?

Tools commonly used for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation include:

• Terraform — allows describing infrastructure in a declarative format, supporting many cloud providers and services.
• Ansible — a tool for configuration management and deployment, using YAML to describe playbooks.
• CloudFormation (for AWS) — enables describing AWS resources using JSON or YAML templates.
• Pulumi — a modern tool that allows writing infrastructure in programming languages (TypeScript, Python, Go).

For example, with Terraform, you can describe a virtual machine and network in the cloud and then deploy them with a single command, simplifying environment management and repeatability.