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layout: "docs"
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page_title: "Providers"
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sidebar_current: "docs-providers"
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# Providers
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Terraform is used to create, manage, and manipulate infrastructure resources.
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Examples of resources include physical machines, VMs, network switches, containers,
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etc. Almost any infrastructure noun can be represented as a resource in Terraform.
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Terraform is agnostic to the underlying platforms by supporting providers. A provider
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is responsible for understanding API interactions and exposing resources. Providers
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generally are an IaaS (e.g. AWS, DigitalOcean, GCE), PaaS (e.g. Heroku, CloudFoundry),
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or SaaS services (e.g. DNSimple, CloudFlare).
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Use the navigation to the left to read about the available providers.
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