Terraform Intro

What is Terraform?

• Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software,
• Created by Hashicorp.
• Open Source/Enterprise Version,
• It provides consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services and life cycle.
• Manage Multiple Cloud Providers.
• Supports all the Services by various Cloud Providers.
• Build-Change-Versioning Infrastructure.
• Terraform uses declarative configuration files.

Write a Code:

Write your code in declarative configuration file.

Plan a Code:

Run "terraform plan" to check whether the execution plan for a configuration matches your expectations before provisioning or changing infrastructure (Like Preview output).

Apply a Code:

Apply changes to the cloud providers with "terraform apply" command to reach the desired state of the configuration.

Some other Infrastructure as Code:

• CloudFormation
• Ansible
• Heat
• SaltStack
• Chef
• Puppet and more