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page_title: "Providers"
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  Terraform is used to create, manage, and manipulate infrastructure resources. Examples of resources include physical machines, VMs, network switches, containers, etc. Almost any infrastructure noun can be represented as a resource in Terraform.
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# Providers

Terraform is used to create, manage, and update infrastructure resources such
as physical machines, VMs, network switches, containers, and more. Almost any
infrastructure type can be represented as a resource in Terraform.

A provider is responsible for understanding API interactions and exposing
resources. Providers generally are an IaaS (e.g. Alibaba Cloud, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure,
OpenStack), PaaS (e.g. Heroku), or SaaS services (e.g. Terraform Cloud,
DNSimple, CloudFlare).

Use the navigation to the left to find available providers by type or scroll
down to see all providers.

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- [ACME](/docs/providers/acme/index.html)
- [Akamai](/docs/providers/akamai/index.html)
- [Alibaba Cloud](/docs/providers/alicloud/index.html)
- [Archive](/docs/providers/archive/index.html)
- [Arukas](/docs/providers/arukas/index.html)
- [Avi Vantage](/docs/providers/avi/index.html)
- [Aviatrix](/docs/providers/aviatrix/index.html)
- [AWS](/docs/providers/aws/index.html)
- [Azure](/docs/providers/azurerm/index.html)
- [Azure Active Directory](/docs/providers/azuread/index.html)
- [Azure Stack](/docs/providers/azurestack/index.html)
- [A10 Networks](/docs/providers/vthunder/index.html)
- [Bitbucket](/docs/providers/bitbucket/index.html)
- [Brightbox](/docs/providers/brightbox/index.html)
- [CenturyLinkCloud](/docs/providers/clc/index.html)
- [Chef](/docs/providers/chef/index.html)
- [CherryServers](/docs/providers/cherryservers/index.html)
- [Circonus](/docs/providers/circonus/index.html)
- [Cisco ASA](/docs/providers/ciscoasa/index.html)
- [Cisco ACI](/docs/providers/aci/index.html)
- [Cloudflare](/docs/providers/cloudflare/index.html)
- [CloudScale.ch](/docs/providers/cloudscale/index.html)
- [CloudStack](/docs/providers/cloudstack/index.html)
- [Cobbler](/docs/providers/cobbler/index.html)
- [Consul](/docs/providers/consul/index.html)
- [Datadog](/docs/providers/datadog/index.html)
- [DigitalOcean](/docs/providers/do/index.html)
- [DNS](/docs/providers/dns/index.html)
- [DNSimple](/docs/providers/dnsimple/index.html)
- [DNSMadeEasy](/docs/providers/dme/index.html)
- [Docker](/docs/providers/docker/index.html)
- [Dome9](/docs/providers/dome9/index.html)
- [Dyn](/docs/providers/dyn/index.html)
- [Exoscale](/docs/providers/exoscale/index.html)
- [External](/docs/providers/external/index.html)
- [F5 BIG-IP](/docs/providers/bigip/index.html)
- [Fastly](/docs/providers/fastly/index.html)
- [FlexibleEngine](/docs/providers/flexibleengine/index.html)
- [FortiOS](/docs/providers/fortios/index.html)
- [Genymotion](/docs/providers/genymotion/index.html)
- [GitHub](/docs/providers/github/index.html)
- [GitLab](/docs/providers/gitlab/index.html)
- [Google Cloud Platform](/docs/providers/google/index.html)
- [Grafana](/docs/providers/grafana/index.html)
- [Gridscale](/docs/providers/gridscale)
- [Hedvig](/docs/providers/hedvig/index.html)
- [Helm](/docs/providers/helm/index.html)
- [Heroku](/docs/providers/heroku/index.html)
- [Hetzner Cloud](/docs/providers/hcloud/index.html)
- [HTTP](/docs/providers/http/index.html)
- [HuaweiCloud](/docs/providers/huaweicloud/index.html)
- [HuaweiCloudStack](/docs/providers/huaweicloudstack/index.html)
- [Icinga2](/docs/providers/icinga2/index.html)
- [Ignition](/docs/providers/ignition/index.html)
- [InfluxDB](/docs/providers/influxdb/index.html)
- [JDCloud](/docs/providers/jdcloud/index.html)
- [Kubernetes](/docs/providers/kubernetes/index.html)
- [LaunchDarkly](/docs/providers/launchdarkly/index.html)
- [Librato](/docs/providers/librato/index.html)
- [Linode](/docs/providers/linode/index.html)
- [Local](/docs/providers/local/index.html)
- [Logentries](/docs/providers/logentries/index.html)
- [LogicMonitor](/docs/providers/logicmonitor/index.html)
- [Mailgun](/docs/providers/mailgun/index.html)
- [MongoDB Atlas](/docs/providers/mongodbatlas/index.html)
- [MySQL](/docs/providers/mysql/index.html)
- [Naver Cloud](/docs/providers/ncloud/index.html)
- [Netlify](/docs/providers/netlify/index.html)
- [New Relic](/docs/providers/newrelic/index.html)
- [Nomad](/docs/providers/nomad/index.html)
- [NS1](/docs/providers/ns1/index.html)
- [Null](/docs/providers/null/index.html)
- [Nutanix](/docs/providers/nutanix/index.html)
- [1&1](/docs/providers/oneandone/index.html)
- [OpenNebula](/docs/providers/opennebula/index.html)
- [OpenStack](/docs/providers/openstack/index.html)
- [OpenTelekomCloud](/docs/providers/opentelekomcloud/index.html)
- [OpsGenie](/docs/providers/opsgenie/index.html)
- [Oracle Cloud Infrastructure](/docs/providers/oci/index.html)
- [Oracle Cloud Platform](/docs/providers/oraclepaas/index.html)
- [Oracle Public Cloud](/docs/providers/opc/index.html)
- [OVH](/docs/providers/ovh/index.html)
- [Packet](/docs/providers/packet/index.html)
- [PagerDuty](/docs/providers/pagerduty/index.html)
- [Palo Alto Networks](/docs/providers/panos/index.html)
- [PostgreSQL](/docs/providers/postgresql/index.html)
- [PowerDNS](/docs/providers/powerdns/index.html)
- [ProfitBricks](/docs/providers/profitbricks/index.html)
- [Pureport](/docs/providers/pureport/index.html)
- [RabbitMQ](/docs/providers/rabbitmq/index.html)
- [Rancher](/docs/providers/rancher/index.html)
- [Rancher2](/docs/providers/rancher2/index.html)
- [Random](/docs/providers/random/index.html)
- [RightScale](/docs/providers/rightscale/index.html)
- [Rundeck](/docs/providers/rundeck/index.html)
- [RunScope](/docs/providers/runscope/index.html)
- [Scaleway](/docs/providers/scaleway/index.html)
- [Selectel](/docs/providers/selectel/index.html)
- [SignalFx](/docs/providers/signalfx/index.html)
- [Skytap](/docs/providers/skytap/index.html)
- [SoftLayer](/docs/providers/softlayer/index.html)
- [Spotinst](/docs/providers/spotinst/index.html)
- [StatusCake](/docs/providers/statuscake/index.html)
- [TelefonicaOpenCloud](/docs/providers/telefonicaopencloud/index.html)
- [Template](/docs/providers/template/index.html)
- [TencentCloud](/docs/providers/tencentcloud/index.html)
- [Terraform](/docs/providers/terraform/index.html)
- [Terraform Cloud](/docs/providers/tfe/index.html)
- [TLS](/docs/providers/tls/index.html)
- [Triton](/docs/providers/triton/index.html)
- [UCloud](/docs/providers/ucloud/index.html)
- [UltraDNS](/docs/providers/ultradns/index.html)
- [Vault](/docs/providers/vault/index.html)
- [Venafi](/docs/providers/venafi/index.html)
- [VMware NSX-T](/docs/providers/nsxt/index.html)
- [VMware vCloud Director](/docs/providers/vcd/index.html)
- [VMware vRA7](/docs/providers/vra7/index.html)
- [VMware vSphere](/docs/providers/vsphere/index.html)
- [Vultr](/docs/providers/vultr/index.html)
- [Yandex](/docs/providers/yandex/index.html)


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More providers can be found on our [Community Providers](/docs/providers/type/community-index.html) page.
