What Is Terraform
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Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you build, change, and
version cloud and on-prem resources safely and efficiently.
HashiCorp Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you define
both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that
you can version, reuse, and share. You can then use a consistent workflow to
provision and manage all of your infrastructure throughout its lifecycle.
Terraform can manage low-level components like compute, storage, and
networking resources, as well as high-level components like DNS entries and
SaaS features.
Hands On: Try the Get Started tutorials to start managing infrastructure on
popular cloud providers: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud
Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Docker.
How does Terraform work?
Terraform creates and manages resources on cloud platforms and other
services through their application programming interfaces (APIs). Providers
enable Terraform to work with virtually any platform or service with an
accessible API.
HashiCorp and the Terraform community have already written thousands of
providers to manage many different types of resources and services. You
can find all publicly available providers on the Terraform Registry, including
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP),
Kubernetes, Helm, GitHub, Splunk, DataDog, and many more.
The core Terraform workflow consists of three stages:
Write: You define resources, which may be across multiple cloud
providers and services. For example, you might create a configuration
to deploy an application on virtual machines in a Virtual Private Cloud
(VPC) network with security groups and a load balancer.
Plan: Terraform creates an execution plan describing the
infrastructure it will create, update, or destroy based on the existing
infrastructure and your configuration.
Apply: On approval, Terraform performs the proposed operations in
the correct order, respecting any resource dependencies. For example,
if you update the properties of a VPC and change the number of virtual
machines in that VPC, Terraform will recreate the VPC before scaling
the virtual machines.
