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Along with all of the other information we previously reported in the "terraform version" output, we'll now include the name of the current platform as our provider mechanisms represent it. This is addressing a long-standing minor annoyance where we often can't tell from an incomplete bug report which platform Terraform was running on, and incomplete bug reporters do tend to at least include the "terraform version" output even if they don't also include the requested full trace log. However, what motivated doing it _now_ is that anyone building a provider registry or mirror needs to have some awareness of these platform identifiers which have been, until v0.13, mostly an implementation detail. This additional information is a small thing we can do to help registry builders find out what the platform identifier ought to be for each of the platforms they aim to support, even if some of them are platforms which the Go compiler allows but which HashiCorp doesn't officially support. The new information is on a line of its own in the output as a pragmatic way to avoid breaking anyone who might be using something like $(terraform version | head -n1) to print a brief Terraform version identifier into some logs. That's not an interface we officially support for machine consumption, but it's easy to avoid breaking it here and so we won't do so.
Terraform
- Website: https://www.terraform.io
- Forums: HashiCorp Discuss
- Documentation: https://www.terraform.io/docs/
- Tutorials: HashiCorp's Learn Platform
- Certification Exam: HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.
The key features of Terraform are:
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Infrastructure as Code: Infrastructure is described using a high-level configuration syntax. This allows a blueprint of your datacenter to be versioned and treated as you would any other code. Additionally, infrastructure can be shared and re-used.
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Execution Plans: Terraform has a "planning" step where it generates an execution plan. The execution plan shows what Terraform will do when you call apply. This lets you avoid any surprises when Terraform manipulates infrastructure.
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Resource Graph: Terraform builds a graph of all your resources, and parallelizes the creation and modification of any non-dependent resources. Because of this, Terraform builds infrastructure as efficiently as possible, and operators get insight into dependencies in their infrastructure.
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Change Automation: Complex changesets can be applied to your infrastructure with minimal human interaction. With the previously mentioned execution plan and resource graph, you know exactly what Terraform will change and in what order, avoiding many possible human errors.
For more information, see the introduction section of the Terraform website.
Getting Started & Documentation
Documentation is available on the Terraform website:
If you're new to Terraform and want to get started creating infrastructure, please check out our Getting Started guides on HashiCorp's learning platform. There are also additional guides to continue your learning.
Show off your Terraform knowledge by passing a certification exam. Visit the certification page for information about exams and find study materials on HashiCorp's learning platform.
Developing Terraform
This repository contains only Terraform core, which includes the command line interface and the main graph engine. Providers are implemented as plugins that each have their own repository in the terraform-providers organization on GitHub. Instructions for developing each provider are in the associated README file. For more information, see the provider development overview.
To learn more about compiling Terraform and contributing suggested changes, please refer to the contributing guide.
To learn more about how we handle bug reports, please read the bug triage guide.