Gautam Gupta
Software Engineer at Convex
Convex Scales Infrastructure Ownership with Terrateam
To support a fast-moving engineering team, Convex adopted Terrateam to bring Terraform into their GitHub workflows. This enabled confident and collaborative infrastructure changes without adding complexity.
Terrateam made it a lot easier for me and others to make Terraform changes and stay aligned.
Faster Deployments
Multiple deployment cycles per day using automated validation, approvals, and GitHub-based processes.
Improved delivery speed
Shared Team Ownership
Engineers propose and review Terraform changes directly in GitHub using clear, structured workflows.
GitOps-native collaboration
Infrastructure Excellence
Convex enforces policy and runs automated Terraform workflows as part of their standard engineering practice, powered by Terrateam.
Maintained production integrity
The Challenge
As Convex expanded, so did the number of engineers contributing to infrastructure. To maintain quality and safety, a small group of experts handled most Terraform changes. That setup worked well early on but eventually began to limit the team's ability to move quickly.
Key Pain Points
- Increasing Terraform usage required better coordination across engineers
- Most changes flowed through a centralized review bottleneck
- The team wanted clearer workflows to enable more developers to contribute confidently
We really just needed a way to run Terraform that spread responsibility and kept things reliable.
Why Terrateam
Convex explored several Terraform automation tools but found most were overly complex or imposed rigid workflows. Terrateam stood out for its simplicity and developer-centric approach.
Key Benefits
- Native GitHub pull request workflows
- No complex CI pipelines or custom scripts needed
- Empowers every engineer to propose and review changes
It's really straightforward. No UI to fiddle with, no extra fluff.
The Results
Terrateam helped Convex decentralize Terraform ownership, eliminate bottlenecks, and accelerate infrastructure iteration, all while maintaining strong safety and review practices.
- Terraform changes required manual reviews
- A centralized review process became a bottleneck as the team scaled
- Limited visibility for the broader team
- Engineers propose changes directly via pull request
- Approvals and applies happen in GitHub with audit trails
- Team iterates faster with less friction and more confidence
We run multiple deployment cycles every day, letting the team test many changes quickly and independently.
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