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Erol Kavas
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Erol Kavas

Erol Kavas has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years, with 10 years dedicated to infrastructure, the cloud, and DevOps. He has helped many Canadian and US enterprises and governments to build their cloud foundations and embark upon their containerization and Kubernetes journeys. He is fully certified on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Kubernetes in all disciplines. He is a partner and chief consultant in a DevOps and cloud consulting firm that helps Canadian and US start-ups in their cloud and DevOps journeys. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) regional lead for Canada and trains many new cloud professionals at CloudCamp.
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Selecting AWS Providers

In Terraform, a provider is a plugin that integrates Terraform with a specific infrastructure platform, such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure. Providers are responsible for understanding the API of the infrastructure platform and exposing resources that can be created, modified, and destroyed using Terraform.

There are two types of Terraform providers – official providers and third-party providers:

  • Official providers are developed and maintained by HashiCorp, the company behind Terraform. These providers are considered the most stable and reliable, as they are supported by HashiCorp and receive regular updates.
  • Third-party providers are developed and maintained by external organizations or individuals. These providers are not officially supported by HashiCorp, but they can be useful for extending Terraform to support additional infrastructure platforms or tools.

You can find a list of all the available Terraform providers on the Terraform...

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Erol Kavas

Erol Kavas has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years, with 10 years dedicated to infrastructure, the cloud, and DevOps. He has helped many Canadian and US enterprises and governments to build their cloud foundations and embark upon their containerization and Kubernetes journeys. He is fully certified on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Kubernetes in all disciplines. He is a partner and chief consultant in a DevOps and cloud consulting firm that helps Canadian and US start-ups in their cloud and DevOps journeys. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) regional lead for Canada and trains many new cloud professionals at CloudCamp.
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