How Does Terraform Works?

The core components of Terraform are as follows

1. Terraform Core

2. Terraform Plugins

Creating SNS And SQS Using Terraform

Terraform, is an open-source and specific infrastructure as a code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp. that helps the Terraform users to build, change, and version their infrastructure in the most secure and efficient way. using terraform, users can manage resources such as virtual machines, storage, and network through infrastructure provisioning and management.

terraform helps to implement infrastructure provisioning and management across different environments in a single process, regardless of whether these environments are on-premises or in the cloud.

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Why To Use Terraform ?

Managing infrastructure was often done by manually and it was a process prone to mistakes. There would be no automation to set up infrastructure without IaC tools like Terraform, which meant manually doing everything leading to inconsistencies and slow deployments. However, Chef and Puppet among other configuration management tools offer some level of automation though they are more about server configurations than the provision of complete infrastructure components. Without comprehensive automation in place, scaling out infrastructure was a challenging task that involved repetition of manual activities and exposed organizations to human errors. Traditional infrastructure management lacked strong versioning tools which made it difficult to keep track of changes, work together well and roll back to previous configurations when necessary. Nevertheless, Terraform changed all this with its introduction transforming how we provision and administer infrastructures....