What is Terraform? Why use Terraform?

What is Terraform?

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool. It allows us to define resources in human-readable files that can be versioned, reused, automated and shared, etc.

Terraform was created by Hashicorp. It is similar to AWS CloudFormation

Infrastructure as Code Tools:

• Terraform
• Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• SaltStack
• CloudFormation, etc

Why use Terraform?

• Terraform is Declarative
• Terraform is OpenSource, platform-agnostic
• Terraform uses a modular structure
• Terraform has a large community