Iac Glossary

Browse 6 iac terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

6 Iac Terms

Config as Code: Managing configuration in version-controlled code files rather than through manual UI changes or scripts. If it's not in version control, it doesn't exist...
DSC: Desired State Configuration — a PowerShell-based configuration management framework that declares the desired state of a system and ensures it stays that way,...
Terraform: Terraform is an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool created by HashiCorp that lets you define, provision, and manage cloud resources using declarative...
Terraform Module: A reusable, self-contained package of Terraform configuration files that encapsulates a set of related infrastructure resources (e.g., a VPC with subnets and...
Terraform Provider: A plugin that teaches Terraform how to manage resources on a specific platform — such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Datadog — by implementing CRUD operations that...
Terraform State: A JSON file (terraform.tfstate) or remote backend record that maps every Terraform-managed resource to its real-world counterpart, storing resource IDs,...