Infrastructure as Code has its own professional vocabulary. Provision the infrastructure, tear down the environment, and destroy the stack are the collocations that cloud and platform engineers use with tools like Terraform and Pulumi. Master these phrases for infrastructure conversations and documentation.
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The platform team uses Terraform to ___ for each new microservice automatically.
Provision the infrastructure is the standard Infrastructure as Code collocation. 'Provision' is the technical term for allocating and configuring cloud resources — it is used in AWS, Azure, GCP documentation and tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible. 'Create' is a subset of provisioning.
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Before spinning up the new environment, the ops team needed to ___ across the right availability zones.
Allocate resources is the standard cloud operations collocation for assigning compute, memory, and network capacity to workloads. 'Allocate' implies deliberate distribution according to needs and quotas. 'Reserve' implies pre-purchasing capacity; 'assign' and 'distribute' are less idiomatic.
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Once the sprint demo was complete, the team ran a script to ___ to avoid unnecessary costs.
Tear down the environment is the standard DevOps collocation for decommissioning a temporary cloud environment. 'Tear down' is the idiomatic opposite of 'spin up' — it implies complete removal of all provisioned resources. 'Clean up' and 'delete' describe individual aspects but lack the completeness of 'tear down'.
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After the migration was complete, the engineer ran `terraform ___ --auto-approve` to remove all resources.
Destroy the stack is the exact Terraform collocation — `terraform destroy` is the command that removes all resources in a stack. 'Destroy' is the canonical verb in Terraform and CloudFormation documentation for permanently removing managed infrastructure.
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Before any infrastructure change is applied, `terraform plan` is run to ___ and review proposed changes.
Plan the deployment is the correct Terraform workflow collocation. `terraform plan` generates an execution plan — the professional term for this step is 'planning the deployment'. It previews what changes will be applied before `apply` is run, making 'plan' the standard collocation in IaC workflows.