From the course: Developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 24,900 courses taught by industry experts.

Learning what Terraform is (what it is and is not)

Learning what Terraform is (what it is and is not) - Terraform Tutorial

From the course: Developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Learning what Terraform is (what it is and is not)

“

- Okay, so before we move on, I just want to clarify a little bit about what Terraform actually is as a tool. So Terraform is an open-source tool. It's developed by, by HashiCorp. And I've got an asterisk here, because Terraform recently changed their license. So now it's under something called a Business Source License. It's still completely free to use, you don't need to sign up or anything, and just download it and use it in almost any way that you want as a user and a practitioner of infrastructure as code, there's really no limitation on what you can do with it. The limitations apply to service providers that compete with Terraform Cloud, which is HashiCorp's hosted product. So if you want to embed Terraform into your product, into, you know, your own third-party tool or something like that, you do have to sign a licensing agreement with HashiCorp. But for most use cases, it's completely free and open to use. The source is available. You could build your own custom version of…

Contents