Provider (IaC) - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A provider is a plugin that lets an IaC tool manage a specific platform's resources (AWS, Azure, GitHub) by translating configuration into that platform's API calls.
A provider is a plugin that lets an IaC tool manage a specific platform's resources (AWS, Azure, GitHub) by translating configuration into that platform's API calls.
Each provider defines the resource types and data sources you can declare for its platform.
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