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R. ModiDeep-Dive Terraform on Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7328-9_4

4. Deep-Dive into Terraform

Ritesh Modi1  
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Hyderabad, Telangana, India
 

 Terraform provides a declarative based language through which the desired state of the resources is configured. The configuration comprises of name-value pairs; the name refers to specific configuration elements exposed by the resource, and the value is the desired configuration Terraform does not provide a full blown scripting language and so it is not possible to write imperative scripts that are usually possible in a general scripting language like Bash or PowerShell.

However, Terraform provides few constructs ...

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