Terraform

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

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• Terraform Registry (Jan 2020)
• Terraform Cloud (September 2019)
• Terraform Enterprise
• Terraform Module Registry (2017)

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

Installation

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

• Linux:
  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y gnupg software-properties-common curl
  • curl -fsSL https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
  • sudo apt-add-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main"
  • sudo apt-get -qq update && sudo apt-get install terraform && terraform -v

Ref: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/install-cli

Terraform commands

• terraform init
• terraform console
• terraform fmt
  • terraform fmt -check
• terraform validate
• terraform import
• terraform plan
• terraform apply
• terraform remote config
• terraform destroy
• terraform show
• terraform login
• terraform add (1.1.0, xx/2021)

• terraform graph

Common Terraform commands

• terraform --help

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 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

Related terms

• HCL and HCL2
• 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: https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/resources/index.html
• Remote state backends to manage Terraform state
• 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
• CLI Configuration File
• Terraform VCS

See also

• Terraform AWS resources: IAM, Net, EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, Route53, ACM, CloudWatch, CloudFront SES, RDS, DLM
• 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
• IaC: Terraform, Chef, cdist, capistrano, Harrow, puppet, Ansible, CFEngine, Cloud Deployment Manager, pulumi, juju, SaltStack, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Google Deployment Manager, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi, Heat, Spacelift, Oracle Cloud Resource Manager, KICS, Troposphere, CaC, IaC scanning

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

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

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