What is terraform?
Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you define both cloud and resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share which enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure.. Terraform supports a number of cloud infrastructure providers such as AWS, microsoft azure,IBM Cloud and many more.
One example for terraform program:
provider “aws” {
region = “us-west-1”
}
resource “aws instance” myec2″ {
ami = “ami-12345qwert”
instance_type = “t2.micro”
}
List of 5 terraform commands and its use:
Terraform –version : Shows terraform version installed
terraform init : Initialize a working directory
Terraform init -input=true : Ask for input if necessary
terraform init -lock=false : Disable locking of state files during state-related operations
terraform get : downloads and update modules mentioned in the root module