The Only 4 Terraform Commands You Need to Start

The init, plan, apply, and state loop every aspiring cloud engineer needs to know

Terraform is the quickest way to start managing infrastructure at scale. Period.

You need to spin up 3 VMs, 3 AWS App Runner services, and an ECS cluster then you need to keep track of ECR repos, security groups, databases, networking, etc. Manually? That gets messy fast.

Terraform keeps track of all of it through state. It keeps a record of every resourc…