content/integrate/terraform-provider-for-redis-cloud/_index.md
Terraform is an open source automation tool developed by Hashicorp that allows you to easily provision infrastructure as code.
Redis develops and maintains a Terraform provider for Redis Cloud. The Redis Cloud Terraform provider allows many of the same actions as found in the [Redis Cloud API]({{< relref "/operate/rc/api" >}}).
See [Get started with Terraform]({{< relref "/integrate/terraform-provider-for-redis-cloud/get-started" >}}) for an example of how to use the Terraform provider.
The Terraform provider represents API actions as data sources and resources. Data sources are read-only and allow you to get information, while resources allow you to create and manage infrastructure.
The Redis Cloud Terraform provider allows for the following data sources:
It also allows you to create and manage the following resources: