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* IRC: `#terraform-tool` on Freenode
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* Mailing list: [Google Groups](http://groups.google.com/group/terraform-tool)
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Terraform is a tool for building and changing infrastructure
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safely and efficiently.
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Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure
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safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service
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providers as well as custom in-house solutions.
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The key features of Terraform are:
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* **Infrastructure as Code**: Infrastructure is described using a high-level
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configuration syntax. This allows a blueprint of your datacenter to be
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versioned and treated as you would any other code. Additionally,
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infrastructure can be shared and re-used.
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* **Execution Plans**: Terraform has a "planning" step where it generates
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an _execution plan_. The execution plan shows what Terraform will do when
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you call apply. This lets you avoid any surprises when Terraform
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manipulates infrastructure.
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* **Resource Graph**: Terraform builds a graph of all your resources,
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and parallelizes the creation and modification of any non-dependent
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resources. Because of this, Terraform builds infrastructure as efficiently
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as possible, and operators get insight into dependencies in their
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infrastructure.
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* **Change Automation**: Complex changesets can be applied to
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your infrastructure with minimal human interaction.
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With the previously mentioned execution
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plan and resource graph, you know exactly what Terraform will change
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and in what order, avoiding many possible human errors.
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For more information, see the
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[introduction section](http://www.terraform.io/intro)
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of the Terraform website.
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## Getting Started & Documentation
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All documentation is available on the
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[Terraform website](http://www.terraform.io).
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## Developing Terraform
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