1. How Terraform Manages Resource State After running terraform init, Terraform downloads the dependent plugins into a local plugins directory. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 tree -aL 5 . |-- myresource.tf |-- .terraform | `-- plugins | |-- registry.terraform.io | | |-- hashicorp | | | `-- null | | `-- shaowenchen | | `-- qingcloud | `-- selections.

1. Terraform Vs Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code (Iac) is built on immutable infrastructure: it uses orchestration tools to turn infrastructure into text, so you can manage infrastructure the way you manage code. In 2018 I was working on SaaS development, deploying on the Kubernetes platform, and that was the year Terraform was very hot.