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title: Introducing the Traffic Manager
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The Traffic Manager product family provides high-availability, application-centric traffic management and load balancing solutions in a range of software, hardware-ready, virtual appliance, and cloud-compute product variants. They provide control, intelligence, security and resilience for all your application traffic.

The Traffic Manager is intended for organizations hosting valuable business-critical services, such as TCP-based and UDP-based services like HTTP (web) and media delivery, and XML-based services such as Web Services.

## Introducing the Terraform Provider

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool produced by HashiCorp, Inc.

System administrators use Terraform to create and maintain configuration templates for your application infrastructure. Ivanti provides a set of tools to Terraform, known as a provider, that enable you to define Traffic Manager configurations within your application templates. Terraform can then provision Traffic Manager instances as part of a wider deployment.

To learn more about Terraform, see [https://www.terraform.io](https://www.terraform.io).