Terraform in a Nutshell
Explore how Terraform transforms configuration files written in HCL into real-world infrastructure by interacting with cloud provider APIs. Learn to set up Terraform on Ubuntu, understand its core capabilities for automating CRUD operations, and prepare to deploy resources across various cloud platforms efficiently.
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Introduction
After understanding the advantages of infrastructure automation, the next step is to explore how Terraform helps us achieve our infrastructure automation. Terraform allows us to convert configuration files that we have written in HCL into real-world infrastructure. Terraform enables us to pass in code (configuration files) and then get IT resources in return. Different cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure provide different ...