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Terraform

Terraform vs Ansible

Terraform Ansible
Focus on infra provisioning and management in declarative way Used for configuration management, applicaiton deployment and automated task using imperative approach
Define the desire state and it will create, update and delete resources Define task and step to execute

Commands

# Basic command
terraform init
terraform fmt
terraform validate
terraform plan -var-file=my-config -out=plan.out
terraform apply plan.out
terraform destroy -auto-approve

# Show state
terraform state list
terraform state show 'module.vpc.aws_vpc.this[0]'