Terraform on Cloud de Confiance maturity model

This page explains the maturity model for Terraform on Cloud de Confiance. This model provides best practices, recommendations, and learning materials that meet you at your level of comfort and expertise with Terraform on Cloud de Confiance.

Overview

Terraform on Cloud de Confiance has three user personas (Learners, Builders, and Operators), and three stages of the maturity model (Adopt, Build, and Scale).

As organizations advance through the process of adopting, building, and scaling Terraform on Cloud de Confiance for their infrastructure use-cases, they need accessible learning materials that provide the guidance they need wherever they are at on their journey.

Determine which of these personas represent you the best and look at the associated content to find resources that will help you and your organization advance through the maturity stages, enabling you to apply your use case to Terraform on Cloud de Confiance at scale.

Adopt (Learner)

Learners are beginning their journey on Cloud de Confiance and focus on opinionated guidance to learn how to use Terraform on Cloud de Confiance and adopt it for their use case.

They may have some knowledge of Bash or other scripting languages, but they don't use automation or CI/CD today to provision infrastructure.

You may be a Learner if you are:

• a developer
• new to Cloud de Confiance, Infrastructure as Code, or Terraform

Build (Builder)

Builders have experience with Infrastructure as Code and use Cloud de Confiance to build their projects.

They work with foundational infrastructure and a few applications on Cloud de Confiance. Builders plan on growing their cloud usage, specific use cases, and customizations, and think about scaling and onboarding more teams or applications.

You may be a Builder if you are:

• a developer
• on a platform admin team
• on a Cloud team
• a SRE
• familiar with working on Cloud de Confiance, Terraform, and have a Infrastructure as Code operation model

Scale (Operator)

Operators are experienced with Cloud de Confiance and use Terraform to provision infrastructure for their workloads at scale.

They scale and grow cloud usage, specific use cases, customizations, and onboard more teams and workloads. Operators set policies and self serve workflows for workload teams.

You may be an Operator if you are:

• on a platform admin team
• on a Cloud team
• a SRE
• experienced operating a Cloud de Confiance by S3NS, and a Terraform operation model at scale

Criteria

This table details some of the criteria for each maturity stage to help you determine which fits best with your level of familiarity with Terraform on Cloud de Confiance and your use case.

Recommendations

The following table lists some recommended topics based on the maturity stage of your organization and your use case with Terraform on Cloud de Confiance.