Terraform Cookbook - Second Edition

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Applying a Basic Terraform Workflow

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that consists of linked elements: the Terraform configuration, written in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), which describes the infrastructure we want to provision; the Terraform CLI, which will analyze and execute our Terraform configuration; and the Terraform State. In Chapter 2, Writing Terraform Configurations, and Chapter 3, Scaling Your Infrastructure with Terraform, we studied a variety of recipes on writing Terraform configuration using variables, loops, functions, and expressions of the language.

In this chapter, we will focus on the use of the Terraform CLI with its commands and options to operate the basic Terraform workflow. We will discuss ...