What is Terraform and its Benefits?
Introduction to Terraform Welcome to the introduction of Terraform. We are going to cover what Terraform is, what are its key features, how it is different from existing tools, etc. Terraform is a tool by HashiCorp. There are other tools from the HashiCorp such as Vagrant, Packer, Vault, Consul, and Nomad. Most of us have used public cloud services like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc. Creating our infrastructure on these platforms are pretty easy and straightforward when done manually. When we talk about infrastructure, we talk about Networks, Subnets, Firewalls, Storage, Load Balancers, etc and when we talk about automating our infrastructure, we talk about the reusability, reliability and sharable features. There are already many configuration management tools in the market such as Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Salt, etc. These tools can be used to automate your services running inside the virtual machine. But we need a reusable process to build infrastructure. The idea is to treat the infrastructure in the same way as an application. So all the principles which can be applied to software development can be applied to infrastructure too like version control. The infrastructure can be shared as it is a code and can be rolled back to the previous version if needed. What is Terraform? Terraform is a tool for building, changing and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and...
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