Teams write declarative files for servers, networks, and managed services across many cloud providers. Plans show what will change before it happens, and state tracks what exists. A registry offers shared modules.
The community edition is free, and HCP Terraform adds hosted features. OpenTofu is an open-source fork.
Pulumi and AWS CloudFormation are alternatives. Terraform suits cloud architects and platform engineers.
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