TERRAFORM-EDI

Terraform (EDI) is the HashiCorp Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code tool — declarative HCL files to provision cloud resources (S3, SQS, K8s clusters, certificates) hosting EDI gateways.

Definition

Terraform relies on Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, etc.) exposing API resources. The Terraform state file tracks the real state; the plan diffs desired vs. real state; apply converges. Modules enable reuse.

Origin

Created in 2014 by Mitchell Hashimoto at HashiCorp. License moved from MPL to BSL (Business Source License) in August 2023, triggering the OpenTofu fork (Linux Foundation).

Use

An EDI team manages AWS resources with Terraform: module edi-gateway creates an 'edi-inbound' S3 bucket, an EKS cluster, Security Groups, a Route53 record 'as2.example.com', ACM certificates. Everything versioned in GitHub and applied via CI.

Related terms

• Kubernetes — common target.
• Helm — K8s complement.
• CDK — typed alternative.
• S3 — provisioned resource.