terraform in A Sentence

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    Terraform providers and provisioners are provided via plugins.

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    Terraform is a mature project with a growing community.

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    These text files are called Terraform configurations and end in. tf.

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    In Terraform 0.7 we merged all of the programs into the same binary.

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    In versions of Terraform prior to 0.7, each plugin shipped as a separate binary.

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    It may be helpful in certain special use cases or to help debug Terraform issues.

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    In previous versions of Terraform all of the plugins were included in a zip file.

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    Setting-parallelism is considered an advanced operation and should not be necessary for normal usage of Terraform.

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    When visualizing a configuration with Terraform graph, you can see all of these nodes present.

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    The Terraform show command is used to provide human-readable output from a state or plan file.

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    In essence, Terraform now just calls itself in order to activate the special behavior in each plugin.

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    In versions of Terraform >= 0.7, all of the official plugins are shipped as a single binary.

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    Terraform builds a dependency graph from the Terraform configurations, and walks this graph to generate plans, refresh state, and more.

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    The content is organized from simplest to most complex- developers new to writing code for Terraform should start at the top.

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    The JSON format is meant for machines to create, modify, and update, but can also be done by Terraform operators if you prefer.

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    And because Terraform shares a lot of code with its plugins, there is a lot of binary data duplicated between each of these programs.

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    If you are looking for information on using Terraform with any of the existing Plugins, please refer to the Docs section of this website.

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    Converting a resource to be importable is also relatively simple, so if you're interested in contributing that functionality, the Terraform team would be grateful.

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    This can be used to inspect a plan to ensure that the planned operations are expected, or to inspect the current state as Terraform sees it.

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    In order to safely and predictably change and iterate infrastructure, Terraform needs to be able to detect changes made outside of it's configuration and provide means of reconciliation.

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    In order to deliver on our promise to be safe and predictable, we need to be able to easily and routinely verify that Terraform Plugins produce the expected outcome.

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    Going forward there is only one file in the distribution so you will need to perform a one-time cleanup when upgrading from Terraform < 0.7 to Terraform 0.7 or higher.

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    While each Provider is unique, over the years we have accumulated some patterns that should be adhered to in order to ensure a consistent user experience when using Terraform for any given provider.

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    Terraform can be extended to allow users to manage more infrastructure providers with Providers(containing Resources and/or Data Sources), more options to store Terraform state with Backends and more options to provision instance with Provisioners.

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    This makes it easy for you to build a Terraform plugin for your organization's internal use, for a proprietary API that you don't want to open source, or to prototype something before contributing it back to the main project.

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    Terraform is an open source project with a large community, and while we maintain a wide range of plugins as part of the core distribution, we also want to make it easy for people anywhere to write and use their own plugins.

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