Providers

• A Provider is responsible for understanding API specific to the cloud provider.
• Complete list can be found at URL
• We can create our own provider if required.
• Main purpose of this component is to very quickly provision resources.
• Example of AWS provider in tf file.

provider "aws" { access_key = "<your-access-key>" secret_key = "<your-secret-key>" region = "ap-south-1" }