{"id":1394,"date":"2021-04-14T00:22:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T00:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.letscloud.io\/blog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2021-04-14T00:26:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T00:26:23","slug":"lets-terraform-a-guide-to-understanding-and-installing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.letscloud.io\/blog\/lets-terraform-a-guide-to-understanding-and-installing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lets Terraform – A guide to understanding and installing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Terraform is a really handy tech tool for DevOps. They can run a single application or your entire datacenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through its infrastructure as a service in a multi-cloud environment with ease of customization through plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready to learn more about Terraform?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, read on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terraform – What is so special about it?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Until recently, I was unaware of Terraform. For me, it was an item on Elon Musk’s to-do list: terraform Mars! Or even it was about an old memory of a game: Spore, back in 2008, good times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, in the world of cloud instances, Terraform is guided by all the weekly meetings I attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform is built on a plugin-based architecture, enabling developers to extend Terraform by writing new plugins or compiling modified versions of existing plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terraform transforms our environment the way we want, due to the provision of automated infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is open source and was developed in Golang by Hashicorp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hashicorp created the HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language). With that, the tool became very friendly and easy to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focused on the Multi-Cloud market, so DevOps can provision multiple environments in different cloud providers using a single tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The infrastructure Terraform can manage includes low-level components such as compute instances, storage, and networking, as well as high-level components such as DNS entries, SaaS features, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are Terraform Core and Terraform Plugins?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Terraform is logically split into two main parts: Terraform Core and Terraform Plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terraform Core is a statically-compiled binary written in the Go programming language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The compiled binary is the command-line tool (CLI) terraform, the entry point for anyone using Terraform. The code is open source and hosted at github.com\/hashicorp\/terraform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primary responsibilities of Terraform Core are:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n