
Terraform Has a Free API — Infrastructure as Code for Any Cloud
Terraform is the industry-standard Infrastructure as Code tool by HashiCorp — define your entire cloud infrastructure in declarative config files, version it in Git, and deploy with one command. Why Terraform? Multi-cloud — AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, 3000+ providers Declarative — describe the desired state, Terraform figures out how to get there Plan before apply — preview changes before executing them State management — tracks what exists vs what you want Modules — reusable infrastructure components Free and open source — OpenTofu fork also available Quick Start # Install brew install terraform # or curl -fsSL https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/1.9.0/terraform_1.9.0_linux_amd64.zip -o tf.zip && unzip tf.zip terraform --version Your First Infrastructure # main.tf — Deploy a web server on AWS terraform { required_providers { aws = { source = "hashicorp/aws" version = "~> 5.0" } } } provider "aws" { region = "us-east-1" } # VPC resource "aws_vpc" "main" { cidr_block
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