What is HCL?
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What is HCL?
HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) is a structured configuration language designed to be easy for people to read and write. Terraform uses HCL in .tf files to describe infrastructure through blocks, arguments, and expressions. Terraform configurations are declarative: they describe the desired infrastructure state rather than a sequence of commands to create it.
Free resources to learn What is HCL?
- Official docsSyntax - Configuration Language | Terraform
- Open sourcehashicorp/hcl
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