diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index cd23805..4c2f2c8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1612,11 +1612,12 @@ The benefits of Terraform over the other tools: * Provider: * Resource: * 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 provider binary to provision available services and components. Resources are the services and components you provision on these platforms.
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 -
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What terraform.tfstate file is used for?