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Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

84 mentions on Hacker News by 79 people: 13 stories, 71 comments · first 2014-07-28 · latest 2025-10-22

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  1. …SemVer just because it LOOKS like it even though nothing actually claims that they are using SemVer https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/15839 The only thing that OpenSSL claims to enforce about their versioning policy is > A…
    comment by NikolaeVarius · 2020-05-29 · in OpenSSL 3.0
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    Terraform v0.13.0 Beta Program
    story by willhallonline · 2020-05-22 · 0 comments
  3. …and persistent volumes. For now, it's too big of a complexity jump over plain Docker. [1] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/2430 [2] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/23735#issuecom... [3]…
    comment by mleonhard · 2020-03-16 · in Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?
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    Terraform v0.12.0
    story by BCM43 · 2019-05-22 · 1 comment
  5. …Take for example Terraform and HCL, they're continually adding more and more [templating features]( https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/website/d... ) and [functions]( https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/interpolation…
    comment by okhudeira · 2019-02-08 · in Why are we templating YAML?
  6. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/516 TLDR: Terraform should use Vault for storing secrets in state, but does not support it yet. (it is occasionally unavoidable storing secrets in state due to resources orchestrated)
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2018-12-05 · in Hashicorp Vault v1.0
  7. …to give Terraform a spin. However one thing our team needs is support for Ansible. If you look at https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/2661 , radekg has worked on an Ansible Provisioner, but it looks like not many people know…
    comment by sritrisna · 2018-11-02 · in HashiCorp has raised $100 million in Series D funding
  8. …party implementations, or are a WIP. (Worst case, you might have to write a provider yourself). https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/5846 https://github.com/adamdecaf/terraform-provider-namecheap (I’ve never used Terraform for this…
    comment by mr_toad · 2018-08-10 · in Ask HN: Is there an API for editing DNS records – for *any* domain registrar?
  9. ironically terraform is already written in golang. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform Go 96.1%
    comment by liveoneggs · 2018-07-24 · in Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud
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    Terraform v0.11.0
    story by jbergstroem · 2017-11-16 · 0 comments
  11. …on TF#13276 sums up the issues I have with Terraform after using it for a little under a year now. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/13276 I hope you all can work on improving the definitions, because many of them really are a…
    comment by scrollaway · 2017-06-13 · in Terraform Gotchas and How We Work Around Them
  12. …spend your time learning Terraform instead. Edit: not sure about CFN, but Terraform is open source: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform
    comment by mayank · 2017-06-12 · in Terraform Gotchas and How We Work Around Them
  13. …0.10 is not yet released, but compiling Terraform from source at master will inherit this behavior. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/website/s...
    comment by sethvargo · 2017-06-12 · in Terraform Gotchas and How We Work Around Them
  14. Here's an issue: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/15263
    comment by kalmar · 2017-06-12 · in Terraform Gotchas and How We Work Around Them
  15. …which is great. It looks like they're already working to get it into Terraform: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/15121 which is fantastic! I look forward to the day that I can automatically spin up a DigitalOcean set of Droplet
    comment by manacit · 2017-06-06 · in Cloud Firewalls
  16. Changelog - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/37b3fe1119406450...
    comment by manojlds · 2017-03-15 · in Terraform 0.9.0 is out
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    Terraform 0.8.0 is out
    story by leventyalcin · 2016-12-14 · 0 comments
  18. …looks to contributors: https://github.com/jleclanche/fireplace/commits/master Versus a merge tree: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commits/master Consider that the git log is one of the first thing contributors will look at. The…
    comment by scrollaway · 2016-09-26 · in Rebase and merge pull requests
  19. I would consider this a bug - if you can open an issue on the https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform repository, we will look into it prior to 0.7.1.
    comment by jen20 · 2016-08-03 · in Terraform 0.7 released
  20. ▲ 1
    Hashicorp's Terraform 0.7 has been released
    story by erickt · 2016-08-02 · 0 comments
  21. …was able to use NAT Gateways for HA NAT instead of setting it all up myself. Super convenient :) https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/4374
    comment by conorgil145 · 2016-06-19 · in Show HN: The Segment AWS Stack
  22. …and even arithmetic. There's a lot more, too. I think it goes well beyond "cloud-agnostic." [1] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/CHANGELOG... [2] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/website/s... [3]…
    comment by joshpadnick · 2016-06-17 · in Show HN: The Segment AWS Stack
  23. …I'm not crazy, it looks like terraform 0.7 will start to support importing, so that's something: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/581 [tfstate file]: https://www.terraform.io/docs/state/remote [terraforming]:…
    comment by mikelinington · 2016-06-16 · in Show HN: The Segment AWS Stack
  24. …Terraform community(which I want to do anyway) who have already added this functionality it seems https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/4381 .
    comment by Rapzid · 2015-12-18 · in New Managed NAT Gateway for AWS
  25. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/4381
    comment by geoah · 2015-12-18 · in New Managed NAT Gateway for AWS
  26. ▲ 5
    Terraform v0.6.4 released
    story by mafro · 2015-10-15 · 0 comments
  27. …for. Please reach out to me directly if you are interested in learning more. Email in profile. [1]: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commits/master?author...
    comment by spoon16 · 2015-07-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
  28. …in Terraform. I'd love to use Terraform but too much of what I use Cloudformation for isn't there. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/28
    comment by sciurus · 2015-01-30 · in Coming Soon – AWS SDK for Go
  29. …on AWS coverage[1]. Many parts are already included. Myself; I'm waiting for EBS-snapshots. [1] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/28
    comment by sandstrom · 2014-10-15 · in Terraform 0.3
  30. It's under Mozilla Public License, version 2.0. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/LICENSE
    comment by iamtew · 2014-07-28 · in Terraform
  31. According to their Github repo it's written in Go: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform
    comment by geku · 2014-07-28 · in Terraform
  32. …that'll be rapidly fixed, though): http://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/r/launch_config.h... https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/9b0ba70537a440b3...
    comment by cheeseprocedure · 2014-07-28 · in Terraform
  33. …setup a useful autoscaling group without the latter. EDIT: There's an issue tracking adding more at https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/28
    comment by sciurus · 2014-07-28 · in Terraform
  34. …Documentation - http://www.terraform.io/docs/index.html Sourcecode - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform - Seems usable and I'm excited to try it out. I like the idea of "execution plans" and the declerative way of setting u
    comment by diggan · 2014-07-28 · in Terraform