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Introduction: infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform

Introduction: infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform

In this next section here, we're going to talk about Intro to Infrastructure as Code, IAC. Pretty much it's known as Terraform globally in the community. This is the go-to tool that all organizations and major enterprises use to manage infrastructure within various cloud environments. And Google is no different. And you're going to see right now exactly how you can do that. First off, when you're coming into the Google Cloud Shell, before we even jump into any of these features here, we're going to go to the HashiCorp Terraform site. I'm not going to dive too deep into any of this documentation here. As you can see, it's constantly being updated from releases. If I click on the releases, I'll just show you how often this is being done. As you can see, several is up to version 7.16 at the time of this recording. and then Google Cloud also has a lot of documentation on Terraform as well as they fully adopted it, which also ties into their actual GitHub repo. And we're actually going to…

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