Introduction

Quant infrastructure (data pipelines, ML training, model serving, monitoring) is complex. Manual infrastructure provisioning is error-prone and difficult to reproduce. Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform enables declarative infrastructure definition, version control, and reproducible deployments.

Terraform for Quant Stacks

Define infrastructure in HCL (Terraform language): compute resources (EC2, GPU instances), storage (S3, databases), networking, security. Define ML pipeline DAGs, model serving endpoints, monitoring dashboards. Version control Terraform code. Deploy consistently across environments (development, staging, production).

Benefits

Reproducibility: infrastructure can be recreated identically. Version control: track infrastructure changes. Automation: provision/teardown in minutes. Cost control: easily identify and remove unused resources. Disaster recovery: quickly redeploy after failure.

Conclusion

IaC with Terraform improves infrastructure reliability, maintainability, and cost efficiency for quant operations.