Hi friend, today in this blog I’ll explain about Terraform in DevOps and Its history & origin as well, lets know about Terraform, It is an open-source tool and it is a multi-cloud, infrastructure-as-code solution, developed by Hashicorp, that makes use of the declarative Hashicorp Configuration Language. It helps you manage existing, popular service providers like GCP, AWS, as well as custom in-house solutions. It manages external resources (such as public cloud infrastructure, private cloud infrastructure, network appliances, software as a service, and platform as a service) with “providers”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are the some important points about Terraform<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n How does Terraform work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The core Terraform workflow consists of three stages:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Importance of Terraform:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n These version controls supported by Terraform<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The supported version controls are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These are the features of Terraform:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What are the most useful Terraform commands?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n These are some of the most useful Terraform commands are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n terraform init – initializes the current directory Explain the uses of Terraform CLI and list some basic CLI commands?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Terraform Command-Line Interface (CLI) is used to manage infrastructure and interact with Terraform state, configuration files, providers, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are some basic CLI commands:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n terraform init – prepares your working directory for other commands Prerequisites for Terraform:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are planning to prepare for the Hashicorp Terraform certification<\/a> then I would suggest you DevOpsSchool Institutes name where you can get quality training by experts. If you are planning to learn terraform then watch this tutorial and get all info.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/how-does-terraform-work.png\")
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terraform refresh – refreshes the state file
terraform output – views Terraform outputs
terraform apply – applies the Terraform code and builds stuff
terraform destroy – destroys what has been built by Terraform
terraform graph – creates a DOT-formatted graph
terraform plan – a dry run to see what Terraform will do<\/p>\n\n\n\n
terraform destroy – destroys the previously-created infrastructure
terraform validate – check whether the configuration is valid
terraform apply – creates or updates the infrastructure
terraform plan – shows changes needed by the current configuration<\/p>\n\n\n\n