What is Terraform?

IAC – Infrastructure as a code

Terraform is a tool that we can use this tool as IAC.

With help of Terraform we can perform below operations/tasks on our Infrastructure.
>>> Provision
>>> Updating
>>> Deleting

Terraform is an IAC Software by HashiCorp.

https://www.hashicorp.com (HashiCorp Official Site)

Terraform provides you capability to create, change, update, improve, delete and versioning your infrastructure
 

Terraform is multi-cloud IAC tool.

What that mean multi-cloud IAC tool  is you can use Terraform on all major cloud provider to managed your Infrastructure
Example: AWS, GCP, AZURE, VMware, IBM, Openstack, etc..

Terraform is written in GO language
GO language (https://golang.org)

Similar Tool like Terraform are:

• Terraform

• AWS Cloud Formation

• Azure Resource Manager

• Google Cloud Deployment Manager etc…

Other Cloud Vendors
(VMware, Opestack, Kubernetes)

Regards,
Mallik