What is Terraform?
Terraform is an Infrastructure As Code tool that is used to create and provision infrastructure on different cloud platforms. Terraform uses a declarative configurational language that is Hashicorp Configurational Language (HCL). It supports multiple cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, and many more cloud platforms. Using Terraform allows organizations to follow multiple cloud strategies to provision infrastructure. In this way, organizations will not be dependent on a single cloud platform to provision their infrastructure. Apart from this, building complex infrastructure on a cloud platform by using only a console is very hard for infrastructure management. If any type of manual error occurs while creating complex infrastructure, it will be very difficult to pinpoint and fix those errors. If the same complex infrastructure is built using Terraform, the occurrence of such manual errors will be eliminated. This increases the reliability of Terraform to provision the infrastructure on any cloud platform. Overall we can say Terraform has become an important tool for organizations to maintain control, reliability, and scalability on the different cloud platforms.
Integrating AWS Lambda With Terraform
Terraform is an Infrastructure As Code tool used to provision infrastructure on any cloud platform on the other hand AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service used to run the code without any management of servers by the user. In this guide, I will first discuss what AWS Lambda is. Then I will discuss Terraform. After this, I will walk you through the different steps to create an AWS Lambda function using Terraform.