Many ways to provision Oracle Cloud Resources using Terraform (plus Stack from OCI CLI)

Terraform is used for automated provisioning of resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Resources are defined in HCL — the DSL used in Terraform for describing infrastructure — and these definitions are processed by the OCI provider for Terraform that turns the definitions into the required calls to the OCI REST APIs.

There are several ways to run OCI resource management based on Terraform definitions. This article sums them up and briefly demonstrates creation and subsequent…