Operation and SRE teams now have access to an official Elastic Stack Terraform provider that allows them to configure the Elastic Stack across various infrastructures, including Elastic Cloud and on-premises setups. This provider offers full control over components like Elasticsearch and Kibana, enabling infrastructure management through infrastructure-as-code methodologies. It facilitates the automated and controlled application of peer-reviewed infrastructure changes. The blog post provides an example of setting up an Elastic Cloud deployment and configuring it with an index lifecycle policy using the Terraform provider, highlighting its ability to manage Elasticsearch resources such as index templates and ILM policies. The Elastic Stack Terraform provider can be used to efficiently configure Elastic Cloud deployments with multiple data tiers, and the provided example demonstrates creating an ILM policy that matches these tiers, ensuring efficient data management. The post emphasizes the utility of the Terraform provider in streamlining the setup and management of Elastic Stack resources, offering readers guidance on starting with Elastic Cloud and using the Terraform provider effectively.