Terraform

Infrastructure as Code tool

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Introduction

What is Terraform?

IaC tool that let you build, change, and version cloud and on-premise resources safely and efficiently.

Why IaC?

Compare to transitional IT infrastructure, IaC helps create and manage infra in a consistent, efficient, agile, and secure way.

challenge with traditional IT infra

Why Terraform?

Terraform supports multi-cloud & multi-API. Not depend on any cloud provider. In software development's language, it means write one run anywhere.

Features

• Provisions resources

• Create resource dependencies

• Standardize configurations

• Validate inputs to resource arguments

Use cases

• Manage infrastructure

• Track changes: review the changes before applying

• Automate changes

• Standardize configurations: implement best practices and improve efficiency.

Terraform workflow

Official Terraform workflow

Basic

State

Function & Condition

Modules

Resources