SoftServe’s Terraform Acceleration Program (TAP) is a structured framework and collection of resources designed for a consultative, hands-off, professional services engagement. Its purpose is to assist customers in realizing their technical and business objectives through infrastructure as code (IaC). TAP helps to enhance security, ensure compliance, facilitate auditing, and enable cost control using a policy as code (PaC) approach. This program leverages SoftServe’s deep understanding of customer needs and knowledge of industry standards. The engagement process is divided into meaningful phases with customer value in each of them.

**Discovery and Interview Phase ** During this phase, customer needs are identified, and business requirements are mapped to current organizational capabilities, with regulatory requirements considered. Areas where Terraform can be used to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability are established. Guidance on product adoption goals and best practices is provided.

**Analysis and Deliverable Phase ** While focusing on current state architecture, existing use cases and usage patterns are documented. Perceived pain points and shortcomings are identified.

Readout and Recommendation Phase The following deliverables are provided: executive readout, impact assessment report, remediation recommendations, adoption, training, and reliability of next steps.

Service benefits: • Accelerate Terraform adoption • Prescriptive, validated, and proven people/process adoption methodology • Access to expert Terraform resources and customized services • Deep expertise partner embedded in the customer and HashiCorp success journey • Expanded DevOps/SRE/Platform team engagements

**Terraform Acceleration Program offers: **

Maturity Assessment. Highlights the expertise and ability to address current state issues. Impact Assessment. A defined process to measure the effectiveness of organizational activities while considering the significance of changes brought about by the adoption of Terraform commercial offerings. Current State Assessment. A defined process to gather and analyze current technical and organizational approaches in the company. Findings and Recommendations. Collateral is presented with recommendations so they can be used to demonstrate customer value addition and address any gaps in the Terraform implementation. Adoption Plan. Shows the path to organization-wide modern Terraform implementation Reliability Plan. Highlights the need for a system reliability engineer’s (SRE) perspective and your company’s capability to provide it. Training Plan. Addresses the skills gap customer practitioners face when scaling with Terraform (Enterprise/Cloud). Operation Plan. Description of the process of operationalizing Vault for all stakeholders.