Infrastructure deployment usually starts simple: someone runs terraform apply on their laptop, eyeballs the plan, and hits yes. That works fine with a small team and a handful of resources. But as the infrastructure grows — more states, more teams, more environments — the question shifts from "how do I apply this" to "how do I make sure the right things deploy at the right time, in the right order, without someone babysitting the process."
This guide walks through the common approaches to automating Terraform deployments, where each one breaks down, and how Snap CD's event-driven model addresses the gaps.
The manual era
Every Terraform project starts here:
cd infra/networking
