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==Provider Plug-In==
==Provider Plug-In==
==Available Providers==
===AWS===
{{Internal|Terraform AWS Provider|AWS}}


=Resource=
=Resource=


=Workflow=
=Workflow=

Revision as of 20:42, 13 November 2019

Internal

Overview

Terraform is a tool for building, changing and managing infrastructure, as code. It uses a configuration language named Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL). Terraform is platform agnostic, and achieves that by using different provider APIs for resource provisioning, via plug-ins. A heterogenous environment can be managed with the same workflow.

Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL)

HCL is human-readable. Configuration can also be JSON, but JSON is only recommended when the configuration is generated by a machine. Internally, the declarative language that drives provider API for resource provisioning.

Provider

Provider Plug-In

Available Providers

AWS

AWS

Resource

Workflow