--- title: A Developer’s Guide to Terraform | daily.dev description: Terraform is a platform-agnostic tool that defines infrastructure in human-readable code. Terraform code describes the end state of the infrastructure after... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-developer-s-guide-to-terraform-vhg0kjghz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Developer’s Guide to Terraform | daily.dev og:description: Terraform is a platform-agnostic tool that defines infrastructure in human-readable code. Terraform code describes the end state of the infrastructure after... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-developer-s-guide-to-terraform-vhg0kjghz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Vhg0kJgHz.png og:image:alt: A Developer’s Guide to Terraform og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Developer’s Guide to Terraform **[Semaphore](https://daily.dev/sources/semaphore)** · 11 min read · 11 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Terraform is a platform-agnostic tool that defines infrastructure in human-readable code. Terraform code describes the end state of the infrastructure after creation or change, not the instructions for making the change. The provider turns the declarative code into imperative instructions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#golang](https://daily.dev/tags/golang), [#terraform](https://daily.dev/tags/terraform), [#hashicorp](https://daily.dev/tags/hashicorp), [#iac](https://daily.dev/tags/iac), [#aws-iam](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-iam), [#aws-s3](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-s3) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-developer-s-guide-to-terraform-vhg0kjghz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A Developer’s Guide to Terraform","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-developer-s-guide-to-terraform-vhg0kjghz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-developer-s-guide-to-terraform-vhg0kjghz"},"datePublished":"2022-08-04T14:38:03.011Z","dateModified":"2022-08-04T14:38:02.931Z","description":"Terraform is a platform-agnostic tool that defines infrastructure in human-readable code. Terraform code describes the end state of the infrastructure after...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4da9c3ef28c48ecd6b3bfea839764d64","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4da9c3ef28c48ecd6b3bfea839764d64","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Semaphore","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Semaphore","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/901ef6f52ded4eb99564604b8bdaee28","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/semaphore"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-developer-s-guide-to-terraform-vhg0kjghz","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":11},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"cloud,aws,github,golang,terraform,hashicorp,iac,aws-iam,aws-s3","timeRequired":"PT11M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Semaphore","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/semaphore"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"A Developer’s Guide to Terraform"}]} ```