Summary
From this complete chapter, you have received an understanding of the Terraform CLI. We also discussed how you can authenticate Terraform to Azure, AWS, and GCP. Moving ahead, we also explained different Terraform commands and subcommands supported by the Terraform CLI. After reading this entire chapter, you should be able to use the Terraform CLI for major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, helping you to provision and update resources in these cloud providers.
In our next chapter, we will be discussing Terraform workflows, where we will focus on the main commands of the Terraform CLI—that is, init
, plan
, apply
, and destroy
.