From the course: Learning Terraform
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Terraform CLI - Terraform Tutorial
From the course: Learning Terraform
Terraform CLI
- [Instructor] We've used Terraform Cloud in this course so that we could get up and running quickly. However, nearly all the functionality that we've used could be duplicated using the open-source command line tool instead. We're going to take a quick look in this video at some of the features on how to duplicate some of that functionality. One thing we need to be aware of is that Terraform Cloud has managed collaboration for us and managed the backend for us. So in order to use Terraform in the command line, we need to set something up as a backend. Otherwise we won't be able to collaborate without undoing each other's changes, if you're working on a team. So let's take a look at the documentation just to see what the options are for this. One of them, if you read here, is actually, to integrate with Terraform Cloud. Which I could see some uses for, but it's not really what I'm trying to highlight in this video. There's always a local backend available by default which won't handle…
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