A tool from Hashicorp is used for defining infrastructure as code. On-topic questions are concerned with the use of the tool itself or how to use the 'code' (HCL) to define specific structures. This tag is often used with public-cloud tags, such as "amazon-web-services", "google-cloud-platform", or "azure", to explain further the question being asked.
Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers and custom in-house solutions.
If you're asking about a Terraform issue, please ensure you are using the latest version of Terraform and the associated provider.
Configuration files describe the components needed to run a single application or your entire data centre to Terraform. Terraform generates an execution plan telling what it will do to reach the desired state and then executes it to build the described infrastructure. As the configuration changes, Terraform can determine what changed and create incremental execution plans which can be applied.
The infrastructure Terraform can manage includes low-level components such as compute instances, storage, and networking, as well as high-level components such as DNS entries, SaaS features, etc.
