Terraform from 0 to hero — 2. Providers

Flavius Dinu
4 min readJan 16, 2023

You should now have an idea of what Terraform is, what it can do, and what are the benefits of using it, but what is a Terraform provider?

In short, Terraform providers are plugins that allow Terraform to interact with specific infrastructure resources. They act as an interface between Terraform and the underlying infrastructure, translating the Terraform configuration into the appropriate API…

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