5 reasons to automate your data infrastructure

This article discusses the importance of automating data infrastructure and highlights five reasons to do so: reliability for data infrastructure, predictable automation tool, consistency across environments, security from automation, and cost and agility. It also introduces Terraform as an open-source IaC tool that can help automate the provisioning of application and data infrastructure in a multi-cloud deployment model. The author suggests starting with a small proof-of-concept to implement these concepts within an organization.