# What kind of tool is terraform?

What kind of tool is terraform?

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

It automate the work. which is very useful this time

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- Posted at: about 2 years ago
- Author title: AWS Cloud | AWS DevOps | Linux | Git | Jenkins | Docker | Kubernetes | (CI/CD)



### Comment 2

That's a infrastructure configuration tool. According to the defination it is a provisioning tool

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Senior Software Engineer at FIS


#### Reply 1

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp. It is designed to help automate the provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure, as well as other resources, such as servers, databases, and networking components. Terraform allows you to define and declare the desired state of your infrastructure using a high-level configuration language. It then takes this configuration and automates the process of creating, updating, or deleting resources to match the desired state.

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- Posted at: over 2 years ago
- Author title: Cyber Security analyst



## Related Product
[IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform)](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-terraform-formerly-hashicorp-terraform/reviews)

## Related Category
[Cloud Infrastructure Automation](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-automation)

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