© Pierluigi Riti and David Flynn 2021
P. Riti, D. FlynnBeginning HCL Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6634-2_1

1. Introduction to HCL

Pierluigi Riti1   and David Flynn2
(1)
Mullingar, Ireland
(2)
New Orleans, LA, USA
 

HashiCorp is a significant player in the cloud revolution. The company produces most of the essential tools for any DevOps engineer or cloud engineer.

The HashiCorp ecosystem is quite huge; the aim of this book is to introduce the configuration language and the different HashiCorp software components.

HCL, A Brief Introduction

HCL is a configuration language designed to be both human- and machine-readable. HCL is an automation language that is used to manage, create, and release Infrastructure as Code. Based on a study conducted ...

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