Effective DevOps with AWS - Second Edition

Chapter 4:  Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

1. Terraform is a high level infrastructure tool that is primarily used for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform is not a configuration management tool as it focuses on the infrastructure layer and allows tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Salt to perform application deployment and orchestration.
2. HashiCorp does not provide native packages for operating systems. Terraform is distributed as a single binary, packaged inside a ZIP archive, which can be downloaded from https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html. Once downloaded, extract the .zip file and place it under the /usr/bin Linux binary path. Once this is done, run terraform -v to confirm ...