Terraform Cheat Sheet
Terraform cheat sheet
Terraform
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool that allows developers to define and manage infrastructure resources, such as virtual machines, storage, and networks, in a declarative way. It provides a consistent, repeatable way to create and update infrastructure, and supports a wide range of cloud providers and services.
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Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IAC) tool that allows you to manage and provision cloud resources from various cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and more. With Terraform, you can define your infrastructure as code, which means you can use code to automate the process of creating and managing your infrastructure.
Terraform uses a declarative syntax to define infrastructure resources and their dependencies, allowing you to manage your infrastructure like a software application. This means you can version control your infrastructure code, collaborate with other team members, and automate the process of deploying and updating your infrastructure.
Terraform uses providers to interact with cloud services and can manage various types of resources, including virtual machines, storage accounts, load balancers, databases, and more. You can define your infrastructure using HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) or JSON.
Terraform also allows you to create reusable modules, which means you can define and reuse infrastructure components across different projects, making it easier to manage your infrastructure at scale.
Authentication
How authentication works in Terraform
Console
Terraform console is an interactive command-line tool used to evaluate expressions and interpolate variables in Terraform configurations.
Control Structure
Used to manage the flow of code execution and control how resources or modules are created and configured.
Functions
Terraform functions are built-in utilities that perform operations on data and metadata within the Terraform configuration files to enable dynamic and reusable configurations.
How to Use Terraform
A Terraform provider is a plugin that enables Terraform to manage resources of a specific technology or service, such as cloud platforms, databases, or APIs, by exposing its resources and operations through a set of APIs.
Modules
Terraform modules are reusable configurations that can be called from other Terraform configurations.
Providers
A Terraform provider is a plugin that enables Terraform to manage resources of a specific technology or service, such as cloud platforms, databases, or APIs, by exposing its resources and operations through a set of APIs.
Terraform Security
Terraform security involves implementing measures to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of infrastructure-as-code deployments, including secure authentication, access controls, and vulnerability management.
Terraform State
Terraform state is a persistent data store that tracks the current state of infrastructure resources provisioned by Terraform, allowing it to manage changes and track resource dependencies.
Terraform Cloud
Terraform Cloud is a SaaS platform that provides collaboration, governance, and automation features for managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
Testing
Terraform testing involves validating the infrastructure-as-code templates and configurations to ensure the provisioning and management of cloud resources function correctly
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