Terraform with Jenkins pipeline

In this article, we are talking about Jenkins Integration with Terraform. How we can execute the Terraform Script using Jenkins.

As we all know Jenkins is a well-known open-source continuous integration and continuous development automation tool, I talked a lot about Jenkins and today also I’m talking about Jenkins.

What is Terraform?

Terraform is the infrastructure as a code offering from HashiCorp. It is a tool for building, changing and managing infrastructure in a safe, repeatable way. Operators and Infrastructure teams can use Terraform to manage environments with a configuration language called the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) for human-readable, automated deployments.

Infrastructure as Code

If you are new to infrastructure as code as a concept, it is the process of managing infrastructure in a file or files rather than manually configuring resources in a user interface. A resource in this instance is any piece of infrastructure in a given environment, such as a virtual machine, security group, network interface, etc.

At a high level, Terraform allows operators to use HCL to author files containing definitions of their desired resources on almost any provider (AWS, GCP, GitHub, Docker, etc) and automates the creation of…