Beyond Terraform: Orchestrating Reliable Infra Workflows with Temporal

Temporal orchestrates Terraform workflows to provide durable, resilient infrastructure provisioning. The platform enables long-running workflows that act as digital twins for infrastructure, surviving process crashes and network failures through durable timers, retries, and state management. Key capabilities include human-in-the-loop approvals with timeout handling, idempotent activity execution, and fine-grained state file management without monolithic configurations. Workflows can be paused, killed, and restarted while maintaining exact execution state, with all orchestration logic persisted outside the application process.