Cloud services offer inexpensive, limitless resources where database teams can practice and validate performance tuning, high availability, and patching. But, navigating a cloud interface to create hosts, assign disks, and configure networking takes time and effort. And you still have to install software and prepare the environment! Enter Terraform—an automation tool that streamlines and simplifies infrastructure builds. In this deep dive session, database administrators experience the basics of provisioning a database and supporting infrastructure on Oracle Cloud with Terraform. No prior experience with Terraform or Oracle Cloud is required!