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## [Terraform & Infrastructure as Code](/glossary/post/terraform-and-iac)

-   [Infrastructure as Code](/glossary/categories/infrastructure-as-code)
-   [DevOps](/glossary/categories/devops)
-   42 Terms
-   06 Nov 2026

Terraform stops being confusing once you notice it compares three things rather than two: your configuration, its state file, and the real infrastructure. Nearly every plan output that looks wrong is

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