A hands-on walkthrough of provisioning and tearing down my first Azure resource using Terraform as part of a learning scenario for Hagital Cloud Solutions.

What is Terraform?

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that automates the provisioning and management of cloud resources. Instead of clicking through a portal to create resources by hand, you describe the infrastructure you want in code, and Terraform figures out how to make the real world match that description.

Because the infrastructure lives in code, it's:

• Consistent:- the same configuration produces the same environment every time.