Getting Started with Terraform

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool by HashiCorp that lets you define and provision infrastructure using a declarative configuration language (HCL).

Why Terraform?

• Cloud-agnostic - Works with AWS, GCP, Azure, and hundreds of providers
• State management - Tracks what’s deployed via a state file
• Plan before apply - See what will change before it happens

Basic Concepts

Providers

Providers are plugins that let Terraform talk to APIs: