What is Terraform

Terraform is a powerful open source tool designed to preview, configure, and manage cloud infrastructure and resources securely and efficiently.

Terraform is a tool for defining and managing infrastructure. It automates the creation, modification, and destruction of cloud resources, servers, databases, and other infrastructure components through declarative configuration files.

Terraform Advantages

• Terraform enables version control, team collaboration, and reuse by storing infrastructure definitions and configurations as code, thereby reducing manual operations and errors and improving efficiency.

• We continue to invest in Terraform resource definition standardization, support, and support efficiency to provide users with an “out-of-the-box” experience.

• Terraform uses a declarative language, HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language), which makes the code easier to understand and maintain by describing the desired state instead of writing detailed steps.

• Terraform provides a rich set of resource and provider plug-ins, and supports users to customize and extend plug-ins to meet different needs.

• Terraform can be integrated with other tools (such as Ansible, Jenkins, Gitlab, etc.) to achieve more complex automation workflows such as automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.