New Confluent Terraform Provider fully automates data streaming infrastructure management in the cloud, reducing complexity and boosting developer productivity
Confluent recently announced the Confluent Terraform Provider as part of its Q3 ’22 Launch. Developed in partnership with HashiCorp, The Terraform provider exposes Confluent Cloud APIs for simple, consistent, and automated management of mission-critical data streaming resources, including cloud environments, Apache Kafka clusters, networks, topics, connectors, and more. Engineering teams can easily integrate data streaming within CI/CD workflows and GitOps processes on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, enabling them to launch real-time applications faster and avoid the high operational costs and risks tied to manual resources provisioning.
“The need to stay ahead of customer demands is fueling the shift to technology stacks powered by data streams and cloud technologies. With our HashiCorp Terraform integration, organisations get the power of data streaming across all major cloud providers with the simplicity of infrastructure as code and automation. This means developers have safe, reliable access to the infrastructure resources they need, focusing on building applications that truly move the needle for their businesses,” said Ganesh Srinivasan, Chief Product Officer, Confluent.
The Confluent Terraform Provider gives engineering teams easy access to the complete set of data streaming resources they need, ranging from Kafka clusters and private networks to service accounts and ACLs. With provisioning and managing data streaming infrastructure automated throughout all clouds, the benefits of real-time data can scale across the entire business to fuel faster innovation from a broader set of teams.
“The new, verified Terraform provider for Confluent makes provisioning critical data streaming resources simple and reliable. It automates deployments within existing CI/CD workflows across all major cloud services so organisations can easily access the real-time data they need for innovation with far less time focused on infrastructure management,” said Burzin Patel, VP, Global Partner Alliances, HashiCorp.
With the new Terraform provider, teams can:
- Reduce complexity and risk with infrastructure deployments managed as code and deployed through automated GitOps integration.
- Increase developer autonomy and productivity with consistent, version-controlled access to data streaming environments, Kafka clusters, Kafka topics, and more.
- Integrate Confluent deployments within existing cloud workflows on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud using standardised resource management tooling, pipelines, and processes.
