The latest articles on Debug School by Vijayakumar Vijayan (@vijvi). https://www.debug.school/vijvi https://www.debug.school/images/zUWA494XKAfYmhe_cl0pl3iH7GOTmAVz6UTSGEeUuks/rs:fill:90:90/g:sm/mb:500000/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu/ZGVidWcuc2Nob29s/L3VwbG9hZHMvdXNl/ci9wcm9maWxlX2lt/YWdlLzY4NS8wZjVm/OTdlMS1jZjE4LTQ0/ODMtOTFiMC03NDIy/ZjJhYjM0N2UucG5n https://www.debug.school/vijvi en Vijayakumar Vijayan Tue, 19 Sep 2023 01:28:24 +0000 https://www.debug.school/vijvi/terraform-day-1-revison-2mmm https://www.debug.school/vijvi/terraform-day-1-revison-2mmm <h2> Why do we need terraform? </h2> <p>Terraform is a tool that has the following benefits:</p> <ol> <li>Is an infrastructure as code tool which allows us to describe our desired infrastrucre as code.</li> <li>Allows us to create automation to deploy the environment</li> <li>Its cloud agnostic where it can be used to interact with multiple cloud vendors</li> </ol> <h2> What is Providers? </h2> <p>Providers are plugins that allow terraform to interact with various cloud systems </p> <h2> What is Resources? </h2> <p>Resources are the key configurations that allows us to manage the infrastructure</p> <h2> List out Top 8 Commands which we have learnt so far? </h2> <ol> <li>terraform init</li> <li>terraform providers</li> <li>terraform validate</li> <li>terraform plan</li> <li>terraform apply</li> <li>terraform show</li> <li>terraform destroy</li> <li>terraform state</li> </ol> <h2> What are the block we have used in .tf file? Explain in Short </h2> <p>Provider - defines the infra provider to be used<br> resource - defines the infra resources to be managed<br> output - defines the value that will be displayed after terraform completes execution</p>