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Writing A Custom Terraform Provider
by Jess Bodzo | Tuesday, Feb 4, 2020 | Terraform
Leveraging Custom Terraform Providers Provisioning and managing infrastructure is a critical task in DevOps. To accomplish this, modern practices rely on Infrastructure as Code (IaC). By storing your infrastructure configuration in version control systems, you can standardize configuration across your organization, and simplify infrastructure updates. HashiCorp's Terraform is a popular choice to accomplish that task. Terraform provides a platform-agnostic configuration language known as HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). HCL minimizes vendor lock-in, while creating a standard language to manage your infrastructure configuration.