How To Get Started With Terraform

A Beginners Guide With an Example project

Bhargav Bachina
Bachina Labs

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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.

Nobody is doing the manual provision of infrastructure nowadays. Terraform is very popular as an Infrastructure as a code provisioning tool. In this post, we will see how anyone can get started with Terraform and we will do some infrastructure provisioning on your local machine.

  • Prerequisites
  • Installing Terraform
  • Terraform Workflow
  • Example Project With Docker
  • Provision Infrastructure With Terraform
  • Understanding Terraform State
  • Terraform Inputs and Outputs
  • Next Steps
  • Summary
  • Conclusion

Prerequisites

It’s very important to set up and configure a local development environment for the terraform. Please make sure you install the below…

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