Terraform

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

• Terraform Cloud (September 2019)
• Terraform Enterprise
• Terraform Registry

Technical characteristics

• HCL2 based
• 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

Installation

• macOS: brew install terraform.
• Ubuntu: snap install terraform or snap install terraform-snap

Terraform commands

• terraform init
• terraform plan
• terraform apply
• terraform remote config
• terraform destroy
• terraform fmt
  • terraform fmt -check
• terraform show
• terraform validate
• terraform login

Common Terraform commands

• terraform --help

Activities

1. Read Terraform blog: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/terraform/
2. 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
3. Terraform: Hello_world.tf
4. Terraform, read files

Related

• HCL, HCL2
• terraform_remote_state
• count parameter for iterations
• Remote state backends to manage Terraform state
• Terragrunt
• Releases: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases
• Terraform libvirt provider
• Heredocs
• artifacts:reports:terraform

See also

• terraform [fmt | show | state | init | plan | apply | console | output | validate | destroy | import | providers ], terraform --help
• Terraform, Terraform PAN-OS, Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise and Clustering for HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise, Terragrunt, Terraform examples: Terraform: Hello world.tf, Terraform: read files, main.tf, Terraform Changelog
• IaC: Terraform, Chef, cdist, capistrano, Harrow, puppet, Ansible, CFEngine, Cloud Deployment Manager, pulumi, juju, SaltStack, Azure Resource Manager, Google Deployment Manager, AWS CloudFormation
• Cloud: cloud providers, cloud timeline, serverless computing, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, IBM Cloud, Alibaba CloudAlibaba, Tencent, Baidu, VPC, Cloud Foundry, Snowflake

https://www.terraform.io/docs/commands/index.html