Provisioners Introduction

Terraform provisioner

A provisioner in Terraform can run a script either remotely or locally after a resource has been created. Hashicorp added provisioners to Terraform to allow for certain scenarios that are not natively supported by the provider you are using. I include them here for completeness. However, Hashicorp recommends that they are a last resort as they are imperative. Therefore, Terraform has no way of knowing how to apply a change you make to your script to the real world like it does with normal resources.