Intro

Cloud providers → Cloud formation Template → JSON or YML file → Infrastructure as Code (IaC) → Automated

Ex: IaC tools

AWS → Cloud Formation Templates

Azure → Resource Manager

OpenStack → Heat Templates

Why Terraform ?

• Universal Language for automating Infrastructure on various cloud providers
• Just provide Terraform with the name of provider and it will handle it
• HCL : HashiCorp Language
• API as Code
• Name of Provider [AWS] ⇒ HCL converts ⇒ AWS API

Codespace

• Add dev configuration
• modify the file and add terraform and AWS CLI
• Then rebuild the container that github as provided you for codespace