Companies who employ DevOps programs have a goal in mind – to enable velocity at scale. Getting software out the door faster and more effectively is becoming critical to remain competitive in today’s fast-paced technology landscape. When speed is the name of the game, automation is key. Without the right guard rails, however, automation can be extremely dangerous. Making security part of your DevOps processes, not an afterthought, puts you in a better place to effectively scale your automation. By injecting controls early on, when developers and operations teams are writing the automation, you can be confident that the guard rails are in place once the automation takes over. This practice is known as “Shifting Left”. As more companies adopt these practices, HashiCorp Terraform has quickly become one of the leading open source infrastructure automation tools. Its simple to use declarative language enables organizations to manage large-scale fleets of dynamic.