Terraform Glossary
Browse 5 terraform terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
5 Terraform Terms
- OpenTofu
- An open-source fork of Terraform created to preserve an openly governed infrastructure-as-code toolchain.
- Terraform Community
- The ecosystem of users, providers, module authors, and maintainers working with Terraform and related infrastructure-as-code practices. In cloud operations...
- 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,...
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- Community (1 terms in common)
- Cloud (1 terms in common)
- Forks (1 terms in common)