Updated the Beginners Section of Terraform
Answered the definition questions for provider, resources and provisioner and those of terraform commands.
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<details>
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<summary>Explain each of the following:
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* Provider
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* Resource
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* Provisioner
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* Provider: is any cloud based technology - github, aws, postgresql etc - which one can make an API call to with its unique terraform
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provider binary to provision available services and components.
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* Resource: resources are the services and components you provision on these platforms.
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* Provisioner: Provisioner in terraform's lingo specifically refers to configuration tools like ansible or salt-stack which are used
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in combination with terraform to orchestrate a system e.g vm's
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</b></details>
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<details>
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<details>
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<summary>Explain what the following commands do:
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* <code>terraform init</code>
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* <code>terraform plan</code>
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* <code>terraform validate</code>
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* <code>terraform apply</code>
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* <code>terraform init</code> initialises and downloads the provider's binary as described in the .tf files
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* <code>terraform plan</code> is a dry-run listing the services and components that will be provisioned on specified provider's
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platform.
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* <code>terraform validate</code> parses through the terraform code to ensure that they are both syntactically correct and runtime
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error free.
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* <code>terraform apply</code> this command provision's the described services on the providers platform.
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</summary><br><b>
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<code>terraform init</code> scans your code to figure which providers are you using and download them.
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