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     6  
     7  # Plugins
     8  
     9  Terraform is built on a plugin-based architecture. All providers and
    10  provisioners that are used in Terraform configurations are plugins, even
    11  the core types such as AWS and Heroku. Users of Terraform are able to
    12  write new plugins in order to support new functionality in Terraform.
    13  
    14  This section of the documentation gives a high-level overview of how
    15  to write plugins for Terraform. It does not hold your hand through the
    16  process, however, and expects a relatively high level of understanding
    17  of Go, provider semantics, Unix, etc.
    18  
    19  <div class="alert alert-block alert-warning">
    20  <strong>Advanced topic!</strong> Plugin development is a highly advanced
    21  topic in Terraform, and is not required knowledge for day-to-day usage.
    22  If you don't plan on writing any plugins, we recommend not reading
    23  this section of the documentation.
    24  </div>