Terraform

wikipedia:Terraform (software) (July 2014) is an open-source infrastructure as code software.

• Google trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Terraform
• Repo: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform
• Terraform Registry (Jan 2020)
• Terraform Cloud (September 2019)
• Terraform Enterprise
• Terraform Module Registry (2017)

• Terraform Operators
• Terraform Expressions

Technical characteristics

• Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL)2 based
• Terraform types: strings, number, bool, list, maps, set, tuple, object, any and null (Terraform 0.12)

Supported platforms/providers

• AWS: AWS EKS, GCP, IBM Cloud, DigitalOcean, Azure: Azure Stack, AzureRM, OpenStack, ServiceNow, F5 Networks, Nutanix, Tecent Cloud, Helm, Oracle OCI, Brightbox, RightScale, Linode, SkyTap, UCloud, Hedvig, Zabbix, Rollbar

• terraform providers

News

• Jan 2023 Terraform Dynamic Provider Credentials
• Aug 2022 CDK for Terraform (CDKTF)
• Dec 2017 Terraform Enterprise (TFE) GA

Activities

• Create you first AWS instances with Terraform tutorial: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/aws-build?in=terraform/aws-get-started
• Read Terraform blog: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/terraform/
• Read https://www.terraformupandrunning.com/ book
• Read Stackoverflow questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/terraform?tab=Votes
• Read Terraform: Up & Running, 2nd edition Early Release is now available! https://blog.gruntwork.io/terraform-up-running-2nd-edition-early-release-is-now-available-b104fc29783f
• Review some Terraform examples
• Use terraform apply -replace to recreate a resource
• Understand AWS Service Catalog funcionality in AWS

Related terms

• HCL, HCL2 and HashiCorp Interpolation Language (HIL)
• Terraform: Meta-Arguments: count parameter for iterations, depends_on
• Terraform conditional expressions
• Terraform functions: templatefile, join, output, Splat expression
• Terraform data sources, Terraform providers, Terraform modules, Terraform resources, Terraform backends
• Terragrunt, Terraformer, terratest
• Releases: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases

• artifacts:reports:terraform
• Terraform Cloud Operator
• Terraform examples: Terraform: Hello world.tf
• Terraform Associate: Understand secret management in state files
• Terraform deprecated commands
• Terraform CLI Configuration File
• Terraform VCS connections
• Terraform best practices
• Oracle Cloud Resource Manager
• Terraform AWS (hashicorp/aws), Terraform GCP
• tflint, tfsec
• tfswitch
• Atlantis pull request automation
• OpenTofu
• .this
• Crossplane.io
• Terrakube.org
• Terramate.io

See also

• terraform [untaint | fmt | apply |show | state | init | plan | console | output | validate | destroy | debug | import | providers | get | graph | workspaces | resource | login | -var-file | state mv | state pull | state push | state replace-provider | state rm | force-unlock | env | tfe | --version | remote-exec | delete on termination | deprecated commands | terraform --help]
• Terraform, OpenTofu, Terrakube.org, Installation, Terraform AWS, Terraform GCP, Terraform commands, Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise (TFE), HCL, HIL, meta-arguments, providers, modules, resource, provisioners, data sources, backends: remote backends, examples, configuration files, state files, variables, types, Terraform Registry, conditionals: depends_on, functions, Blocks, dynamic blocks, errors, Terragrunt, Terraformer, Terratest, Terraform certifications, Terraform map type, Terraform Associate, Terraform: list type, TF_VAR_, TF_LOG, Terraform provider versioning, Terraform Style Conventions, Required version, Terraform plugin, Terraform Named Values, tags, Changelog, tfsec, tflint, Operators, Expressions: for, splat, Debugging, Namespaces, Terraform Landing Zones, CDKTF, Atmos, Atlantis
• IaC, Terraform Cloud (TFC), Terraform, OpenTofu, Terramate, Terragrunt, Terrakube.org

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-providers-in-the-new-terraform-registry

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-terraform-module-registry