What is it

Infrastructure as a Code (IAC).

Managing infrastructure on file instead of a GUI.

You can change and manage infrastructure in a consistent and repeatable way.

Why use it

Supports multiple cloud platforms

Human readable

State = track resource changes

Terraform Cloud = version control and collaborate as team

Providers

Providers = API for interacting with various cloud platforms

Terraform registry holds the list of providers

These are provided as plugins

State file

Source of truth for infrastructure changes.

Terraform uses this file to determine changes to match your configuration.

Boto3

AWS SDK for Python (Boto3)