How To Get Started With Terraform
A Beginners Guide With an Example project
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…