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Terraform Provider
What are Terraform Providers?
In Terraform, a provider is a plugin that acts as an interface between Terraform and an external service or platform.
Providers allow Terraform to manage resources, interact with APIs, and perform operations on various cloud platforms, infrastructure services, and third-party systems. Each provider specializes in managing resources within a specific technology or service.
Terraform providers are the bridge that connects your infrastructure-as-code configurations to your cloud resources.
Role of Terraform Providers
✅ Resource Management
✔️ Dependency Tracking
☑️ State Management
✅ Providers enable Terraform to create, read, update, and delete resources in the supported cloud platforms. This allows you to manage everything from virtual machines to databases and networking components.
✔️ Providers handle resource dependencies, ensuring that Terraform creates resources in the correct order based on their interdependencies.
☑️ When you apply your Terraform configurations, the provider stores the state of the managed resources. This state helps Terraform track changes and maintain the desired state of your infrastructure.