From the course: Introduction to Terraform on Azure
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Calling Terraform provider - Terraform Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Terraform on Azure
Calling Terraform provider
- [Instructor] Now that we learned a little bit about Terraform resources, let's learn about Terraform Providers. Terraform relies on providers to interact with cloud providers, SaaS providers, or other APIs. Without Terraform providers, we can't create any resources or configure any infrastructure. So you must declare a Terraform provider to even get started with Terraform. Most providers configure specific types of objects such as infrastructure, naming conventions, generating random numbers or strings, just to help you implement and simplify your infrastructure and configurations. For this module, we'll be using the Azurerm provider but you can also take a look at all the different types of Terraform providers on the Terraform registry. To get the Azurerm provider which will be using for this course, you can go to the GitHub repository that will be linked to the exercise files or you can go on the Terraform…
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