So far, we have seen and executed, on the local machine, the various Terraform commands that allow us to initialize, preview, apply, and destroy an infrastructure and to format and validate Terraform code. When using Terraform locally, in a development context, its execution life cycle is as follows:
The steps shown in the diagram follow this sequence:
- Code development
- Code formatting with terraform fmt
- Initialization with terraform init
- Code validation with terraform validate
- Planning with terraform plan
- Manual verification of Terraform changes on infrastructure
But IaC, like an application, must ...
