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What is and why use Terraform?

Hashicorp Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources on human readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share. You can then use a consistent workflow to provision and manage all of your infrastructure throughout its lifestyle. Source

There is a lot of reasons to use Terraform. Here are the main ones :

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): You can manage your infrastructure through code instead of manual processes
• Version Control: Track changes, collaborate with teams, and maintain infrastructure history
• Consistency and Automation: Deploy identical infrastructure across different environments reliably
• Multi-Cloud Support: Work with multiple cloud providers using a single configuration language
• Reproducibility

What Terraform is not ?

Terraform is not :

• A configuration management tool (like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet) - Terraform is focused on infrastructure provisioning