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Terraform glossary This page collects brief definitions of some of the technical terms used in the documentation for Terraform, as well as some terms that come up frequently in conversations throughout the Terraform community. API Apply (noun) Apply (verb) Argument Attribute Backend Blob Storage Block Branch CI/CD CLI Commit (Terraform) Configuration Configuration Version Cost Estimation Data Source Deposed Expression Fork Git HCL ID Infrastructure as Code Ingress Input Variables Interpolation JSON Locking Log Module OAuth OAuth Client OAuth Token Organization Output Values OSS Permissions Plan (verb) Plan (noun, 1) Plan File Policy Policy Check Policy Set Private Terraform Registry Private Terraform Enterprise (PTFE) (Terraform) Provider Pull Request (PR) Queue (Terraform) Registry Remote Operations Remote Backend Repository Resource Root Module Root Outputs Run Run Triggers S3 SAML Sentinel Site Admin Speculative Plan SSH Key State State Version Team Terraform HCP Terraform Terraform Enterprise Terraform Version TFE TFE Provider / HCP Terraform Provider (API) Token Trigger Variables VCS VCS Provider Webhook Working Directory Workspace API Acronym for "Application Programming Interface". Any interface designed to allow programmatic manipulation of some kind of software system. For most software developers today, the most common kinds of APIs are based on HTTP requests. Terraform relies on cloud service provider APIs to manage resources; each service's Terraform provider is responsible for mapping Terraform's resource model to the series of actual API calls necessary to create, check, modify, or delete a real infrastructure resource in that cloud service. HCP Terraform also offers its own API, for managing resources like team membership, policies, and workspaces. That API, in turn, is used by the tfe Terraform provider, so you can use Terraform to manage the system that runs Terraform for you. HCP Terraform: API Terraform providers: tfe Apply (noun) One of the stages of a run , in which changes are made to real infrastructure resources in order to make them match their desired state.
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