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@@ -1609,9 +1609,11 @@ The benefits of Terraform over the other tools:
Explain each of the following:
- * Provider
- * Resource
- * Provisioner
+ * Provider: is any cloud based technology - github, aws, postgresql etc - which one can make an API call to with its unique terraform
+ provider binary to provision available services and components.
+ * Resource: resources are the services and components you provision on these platforms.
+ * Provisioner: Provisioner in terraform's lingo specifically refers to configuration tools like ansible or salt-stack which are used
+ in combination with terraform to orchestrate a system e.g vm's
@@ -1623,10 +1625,12 @@ It keeps track of the IDs of created resources so that Terraform knows what it i
Explain what the following commands do:
- * terraform init
- * terraform plan
- * terraform validate
- * terraform apply
+ * terraform init
initialises and downloads the provider's binary as described in the .tf files
+ * terraform plan
is a dry-run listing the services and components that will be provisioned on specified provider's
+ platform.
+ * terraform validate
parses through the terraform code to ensure that they are both syntactically correct and runtime
+ error free.
+ * terraform apply
this command provision's the described services on the providers platform.
terraform init
scans your code to figure which providers are you using and download them.