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Providers​

Context

  • Terraform supports multiple providers
  • Depending on what type of infrastructure we want to launch, we have to use appropriate providers accordingly

Concepts: A provider is a plugin that lets Terraform manage an external API

Command: terraform init

  • When we run terraform init, plugins required for the provider are automatically downloaded and saved locally to a .terraform directory

Resource​

Concept: Resource block describes one or more infrastructure objects

Examples

  • resource aws_instance
  • resource iam_user

Resource Block​

Concepts

  • A resource block declares a resource of a given type ("aws_instance") with a given local name ("myec2")
  • Resource type and Name together serve as an identifier for a given resource and so must be unique

Note: You can only use the resource that are supported by a specific provider

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