Terraform
by HashiCorp (IBM)
HashiCorp's infrastructure as code tool for cloud and on-prem resources
Terraform lets you define infrastructure declaratively in HCL and manage it through a plan/apply workflow, using thousands of providers for clouds and SaaS. HashiCorp, now an IBM company, has released it under the source-available Business Source License since 2023; OpenTofu is the open-source fork.
Key features
- Declarative infrastructure in HCL
- Plan and apply workflow
- Large provider and module registry
- Remote state and runs in HCP Terraform
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