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Loading schemas from some providers can be particularly expensive, since providers for large remote platforms tend to have very large schemas. Since provider schemas are needed for many operations in Terraform, callers sometimes end up loading schemas themselves anyway. Earlier work tried to mitigate this by introducing a global schema cache for all plugin-based providers, but that's problematic because it forces only a single implementation of each distinct provider source address across the entire lifetime of a process importing package providers. This does not remove that global cache yet, but does add a new capability that will hopefully eventually supplant it: callers of terraform.NewContext can provide a set of preloaded provider schemas which they must ensure would match what Terraform Core would find if it loaded the schemas from an instance of the same provider instantiated through the corresponding factory function given alongside. A caller that wishes to avoid the potential cost of multiple schema lookups can now therefore go look up the schemas itself before calling terraform.NewContext, and provide frozen schemas that we'll use instead of fetching from the associated plugins. As of this commit no callers are actually using this mechanism. The first caller will be the "stackeval" package, which already loads provider schemas in order to evaluate provider configuration blocks anyway and so should always be able to provide a full complement of preloaded schemas to avoid Terraform Core needing to do any further lookups itself. |
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Terraform
- Website: https://www.terraform.io
- Forums: HashiCorp Discuss
- Documentation: https://www.terraform.io/docs/
- Tutorials: HashiCorp's Learn Platform
- Certification Exam: HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.
The key features of Terraform are:
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Infrastructure as Code: Infrastructure is described using a high-level configuration syntax. This allows a blueprint of your datacenter to be versioned and treated as you would any other code. Additionally, infrastructure can be shared and re-used.
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Execution Plans: Terraform has a "planning" step where it generates an execution plan. The execution plan shows what Terraform will do when you call apply. This lets you avoid any surprises when Terraform manipulates infrastructure.
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Resource Graph: Terraform builds a graph of all your resources, and parallelizes the creation and modification of any non-dependent resources. Because of this, Terraform builds infrastructure as efficiently as possible, and operators get insight into dependencies in their infrastructure.
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Change Automation: Complex changesets can be applied to your infrastructure with minimal human interaction. With the previously mentioned execution plan and resource graph, you know exactly what Terraform will change and in what order, avoiding many possible human errors.
For more information, refer to the What is Terraform? page on the Terraform website.
Getting Started & Documentation
Documentation is available on the Terraform website:
If you're new to Terraform and want to get started creating infrastructure, please check out our Getting Started guides on HashiCorp's learning platform. There are also additional guides to continue your learning.
Show off your Terraform knowledge by passing a certification exam. Visit the certification page for information about exams and find study materials on HashiCorp's learning platform.
Developing Terraform
This repository contains only Terraform core, which includes the command line interface and the main graph engine. Providers are implemented as plugins, and Terraform can automatically download providers that are published on the Terraform Registry. HashiCorp develops some providers, and others are developed by other organizations. For more information, see Extending Terraform.
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To learn more about compiling Terraform and contributing suggested changes, refer to the contributing guide.
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To learn more about how we handle bug reports, refer to the bug triage guide.
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To learn how to contribute to the Terraform documentation in this repository, refer to the Terraform Documentation README.