Terraform Init Command

Date: 2022-01-11

This tutorial introduces Terraform, an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool, and its init command. Terraform uses a declarative language to manage infrastructure resources. The init command initializes a Terraform configuration, downloading necessary plugins and preparing the environment for further operations like planning and applying infrastructure changes. It's idempotent, meaning it's safe to run multiple times. This command is crucial as the first step in any Terraform workflow. After making configuration changes, re-running terraform init is necessary.

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