No, before terraform, someone has to boot a machine and slap an image on it or do an OS install, Register the host in some way and have it checking for the terraform.
I use ansible for creating machine images or initial provisioning. (I don't run the ansible, someone racks the host, sets it's build state to install, and boots the host and it joins the appropriate cluster and people do container things. I don't necessarily know when my ansible runs against a host.
I also have a pretty good stack of ansible playbooks that I use manually day to day for hardware validation for new server models and one off type stuff. But again, I never really know what I'm running against or have pet servers.
A good chunk of hardware validation runs automatically if the boot target is set to hw-validate, but the whole point is that you are gonna find stuff that doesn't work with your standard process and either pass on it or adjust.
I do run tf to provision cloud infra so its transparent to the devs, and, honestly, not sure how ansible is dated and tf is not, they are pretty much the same thing in a different coat.
And honestly, generating thousands of lines of conflicting generic yaml isn't really much of an improvement over writing it once and running it automatically on 1000s of boxes.
I use ansible for creating machine images or initial provisioning. (I don't run the ansible, someone racks the host, sets it's build state to install, and boots the host and it joins the appropriate cluster and people do container things. I don't necessarily know when my ansible runs against a host.
I also have a pretty good stack of ansible playbooks that I use manually day to day for hardware validation for new server models and one off type stuff. But again, I never really know what I'm running against or have pet servers.
A good chunk of hardware validation runs automatically if the boot target is set to hw-validate, but the whole point is that you are gonna find stuff that doesn't work with your standard process and either pass on it or adjust.
I do run tf to provision cloud infra so its transparent to the devs, and, honestly, not sure how ansible is dated and tf is not, they are pretty much the same thing in a different coat.
And honestly, generating thousands of lines of conflicting generic yaml isn't really much of an improvement over writing it once and running it automatically on 1000s of boxes.