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Terraform

HashiCorp's infrastructure as code tool that provisions resources across many providers using declarative HCL configuration.

Definition

Terraform builds a dependency graph of resources, compares desired configuration to state, and creates an execution plan. It is source-available under the Business Source License since 2023; OpenTofu is the open-source fork. HashiCorp is now part of IBM.

Example

terraform init && terraform plan -out tfplan && terraform apply tfplan

Exam tip

Terraform is declarative and provider-agnostic; know the core workflow write, plan, apply.

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