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Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you build, change, and version infrastructure safely and efficiently. This includes low-level components like compute instances, storage, and networking, as well as high-level components like DNS entries and SaaS features.

Introduction

  • What is Terraform?
    How Terraform solves infrastructure challenges.
  • Use Cases
    Popular use cases and related documentation you can use to create Terraform configurations and workflows.
  • Terraform vs. Alternatives
    Learn how Terraform compares to other tools and services.
  • Phases of Terraform adoption
    Design your Terraform workflows for scale.

Manage Infrastructure

  • Configuration Language
    Describe infrastructure on various providers with Terraform's configuration language.
  • Terraform CLI
    Use the Terraform CLI to manage configuration, plugins, infrastructure, and state.

Collaborate

  • HCP Terraform
    HCP Terraform helps teams use Terraform together, with version control, state sharing, governance, and more.
  • Terraform Enterprise
    Terraform Enterprise is a self-hosted instance of HCP Terraform, which is ideal for organizations that have strict security and compliance requirements.

Develop and Share

  • Plugin Development
    Create a provider to allow Terraform to interact with a service.
  • Modules
    Create reusable configurations with modules.
  • Registry Publishing
    Publish a provider or module to the Terraform Registry to make it publicly available.