What are the main steps of the core Terraform workflow?

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Write, then init, then plan, then apply — the standard cycle for managing infrastructure — You author config, initialize the directory, preview with plan, then apply. Destroy is a separate teardown step, not part of the normal build loop.

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Build, then test, then release, then deploy — the standard cycle for shipping application code

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Clone, then compile, then package, then publish — the standard cycle for distributing binaries

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Plan, then init, then validate, then destroy — the standard cycle for managing infrastructure

What are the main steps of the core Terraform workflow?

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