terraform VS prometheus

2. Terraform (hashicorp/terraform) – Infrastructure as Code

Terraform is used to manage infrastructure. You can define your servers, databases, and networks in code, and Terraform will create them for you. It’s like DevOps magic. Written in Go.

Terraform: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform

Terraform or OpenTofu for infra as code

For more information on Docker, you can refer to the official Docker documentation and explore relevant open-source projects on Docker's GitHub. Additionally, for Terraform-related resources, check out the official Terraform documentation and Terraform GitHub.

In this post, I will share WebRTC.ventures' best practices in automating the deployment of AI-powered voice assistants for Amazon Connect, moving beyond manual, click-by-click setups to a robust, scalable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach. We’ll explore how to manage both static and dynamic resources, leverage tools like Terraform and AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), and even set up an automated deployment pipeline using Github Actions to deploy your conversational IVR solutions efficiently.

We manage infrastructure with Terraform and lean heavily on GitHub Actions for CI/CD. Very simple but it works! Oh and a lot of bash scripts of course.

You can download Terraform from terraform.io and install it on your machine.

Claude also created the IAC for deploying the app on Hetzner, using Terraform as the configuration tool. I only had to provide my Hetzner API key for VPS resource provisioning and my Cloudflare API key for domain name DNS entry management. 🌐

Terraform Installed: Download and install Terraform from the website: https://www.terraform.io/

4. Prometheus (prometheus/prometheus) – Metrics Monitoring & Alerting

Tools like Prometheus for metric collection and Grafana for visualization and alerting form the backbone of modern observability stacks, providing the raw data that AI/ML models can then process for predictive insights.

Prometheus - Metrics collection and alerting

Now, let’s implement it using Prometheus syntax:

Official Website: Prometheus

In modern cloud-native applications, observability isn't optional—it's essential. When building distributed applications with Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime), monitoring becomes even more critical to ensure your services behave as expected. Thankfully, Dapr has built-in support for exposing metrics in Prometheus format, making it straightforward to integrate and monitor your applications.

Prometheus is a monitoring system. It collects metrics from your apps and systems and lets you alert when something goes wrong. It’s also written in Go and is part of the Cloud Native stack.

Grafana, Prometheus and Tempo wired up correctly in the docker-compose file

Alternatives to: DuckDB, Apache Cassandra, Amazon RedShift, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Amazon Timestream