Terraform Modules for Yandex Cloud

Main article: IT Service Management (ITSM)

2023: Module Development

On May 2, 2023, Yandex Cloud announced the development of its own modules for the open source infrastructure management tool Terraform. These are ready-made sets of files with settings for cloud services that simplify the work of DevOps engineers. Modules also help to avoid code duplication. Terraform Modules for Yandex Cloud is already available on GitHub.

When using Terraform, the DevOps engineer often writes modules. The finished library from Yandex Cloud allows him not to waste time on this and focus on infrastructure automation tasks. You do not have to separately describe service accounts, roles, security groups and third-party resources when you need to create, for example, a Kubernetes cluster. Modularity also helps simplify code management. If you need to create 10 Kubernetes clusters in different projects, it is enough to use one module and call it 10 times, you do not need to write hundreds of lines of code.

Yandex Cloud has supported Terraform since 2018. Modules enhance the efficiency of working with the tool. They collect all the practices for deploying managed services from cloudy platform specialists. For May 2023, the modules allow you to create clusters Kubernetes,, and PostgreSQL MySQL ALB, VPC and Security Group. Their number on GitHub will increase. Terraform modules are available in large cloud, providers including, and. AWS Microsoft Azure Also, Google Cloud the use of modules is recommended by the HashiCorp Terraform developer.