Terraform 101: How to Manage Snowflake Account Objects with Code

Terraform is a declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool. It is stateful, helping you understand and handle dependencies between resources. Using Terraform is a great way to manage account level Snowflake resources. Many Snowflake customers use Terraform to comply with security controls, maintain consistency, and support similar engineering workflows for infrastructure at scale.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to use Terraform to manage your Snowflake configurations in an automated and source-controlled way. Specifically, we’ll walk through:

Basic Terraform usage
How to create users, roles, databases, schemas, and warehouses in Terraform
How to manage objects from code/source control
Ultimately you’ll build a repository containing a Terraform project that manages Snowflake account objects through code.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with Git, Snowflake, and Snowflake objects
ACCOUNTADMIN role access to a Snowflake account

What You'll Need

A GitHub account
A git command-line client
Text editor of your choice
Terraform installed

Terraform 101: How to Manage Snowflake Account Objects with Code

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