You can develop a custom provider to manage its resources using Terraform.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. It is not possible
• D. Only with a paid version of Terraform

Answer: (A)

Terraform is built to be extended with providers, which are plugins that implement how to create, read, update, and delete resources for a given API. This design allows you to write your own custom provider to manage resources exposed by any service, including your own, and then manage those resources with Terraform alongside other infrastructure. You don’t need any paid edition to do this—the open-source version of Terraform plus the Terraform Plugin SDK is all that’s required. You’d implement the provider in Go, define the resources and data sources, build a binary, and configure Terraform to use it (locally or by publishing it). So the statement is true: you can develop a custom provider to manage its resources using Terraform.