DevOps Classroomnotes 15/Mar/2023

Terraform

• Terraform is an opensource tool developed by HashiCorp which can create infra in almost any virtual platform
• Terraform uses a language which is called as Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) to express desired State.

Terms

• Resource: This is the infrastructure which you want to create
• Provider: This refers to where you want to create infrastructure
• The inputs which we express in teraform are called as arguments
• The output given by terraform is referred as attribute

Installing terraform

• Refer Here for official docs
• Refer Here for the changes
• We have executed the commands in following order
  
  
  
  

Developer Environment

• Install Visual Studio Code
• Ensure Terraform Extension is installed
  
• Refer Here for installing necessary softwares on your windows system

Lets try to create a basic terraform template

• Create a new folder hellotf
• open visual studio code
• Create a new file main.tf with extension .tf
• Choose any provider Refer Here
• Refer Here for aws provider
• Lets do the same with azure Refer Here for the changes
  
• Terraform basic workflow