What is Terraform?
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Terraform is an open source “Infrastructure as Code” tool, created by HashiCorp.
A declarative coding tool, Terraform enables developers to use a high-level configuration language called HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) to describe the desired “end-state” cloud or on-premises infrastructure for running an application. It then generates a plan for reaching that end-state and executes the plan to provision the infrastructure.
What Is Terraform In It
Terraform operates by calling into the APIs of various service providers and systems. Thus in principle Terraform can manage anything that has an API, and in practice it has existing support for a few different on-premises-capable systems, including. OpenStack; VMWare vSphere; CloudStack; If the compute resources in your existing datacenter infrastructure are already managed with one of these. The action supports the following inputs: cliconfigcredentialshostname - (optional) The hostname of a Terraform Cloud/Enterprise instance to place within the credentials block of the Terraform CLI configuration file. Defaults to app.terraform.io. Cliconfigcredentialstoken - (optional) The API token for a Terraform Cloud/Enterprise instance to place within the credentials block. Terraform Provider for OneFuse v1.0.0 Providers:. `onefuse` Provider for communicating with a OneFuse 1.0 instance. Resources:. `onefusenaming` Resource for creating a Naming Template. Also Includes:. A simple Naming example. A more complicated Naming + vSphere example. Contributing guide.
Because Terraform uses a simple syntax, can provision infrastructure across multiple cloud and on-premises data centers, and can safely and efficiently re-provision infrastructure in response to configuration changes, it is currently one of the most popular infrastructure automation tools available. If your organization plans to deploy a hybrid cloud or multicloud environment, you’ll likely want or need to get to know Terraform.
Terraform Tutorialspoint
In the video “Terraform Explained,” Sai Vennam goes a little deeper on the tool:
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