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@ -1609,10 +1609,13 @@ The benefits of Terraform over the other tools:
<details> <details>
<summary>Explain each of the following: <summary>Explain each of the following:
* Provider: is any cloud based technology - github, aws, postgresql etc - which one can make an API call to with its unique terraform * Provider:
provider binary to provision available services and components. * Resource:
* Resource: resources are the services and components you provision on these platforms. * Provisioner:
* Provisioner: Provisioner in terraform's lingo specifically refers to configuration tools like ansible or salt-stack which are used <b>- 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 in combination with terraform to orchestrate a system e.g vm's
</b></details> </b></details>
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<details> <details>
<summary>Explain what the following commands do: <summary>Explain what the following commands do:
* <code>terraform init</code> initialises and downloads the provider's binary as described in the .tf files * <code>terraform init</code>
* <code>terraform plan</code> is a dry-run listing the services and components that will be provisioned on specified provider's * <code>terraform plan</code>
platform. * <code>terraform validate</code>
* <code>terraform validate</code> parses through the terraform code to ensure that they are both syntactically correct and runtime * <code>terraform apply</code>
error free. <details> - terraform init initialises and downloads the provider's binary as described in the .tf files
* <code>terraform apply</code> this command provision's the described services on the providers platform. - 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.
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</summary><br><b> </summary><br><b>
<code>terraform init</code> scans your code to figure which providers are you using and download them. <code>terraform init</code> scans your code to figure which providers are you using and download them.