Updated the Beginners Section of Terraform
Answered the definition questions for provider, resources and provisioner and those of terraform commands.
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<summary>Explain each of the following:
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  * Provider
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  * Resource
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  * Provisioner
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  * Provider: is any cloud based technology - github, aws, postgresql etc - which one can make an API call to with its unique terraform 
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  	      provider binary to provision available services and components.
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  * Resource: resources are the services and components you provision on these platforms.
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  * Provisioner: Provisioner in terraform's lingo specifically refers to configuration tools like ansible or salt-stack which are used 
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  		 in combination with terraform to orchestrate a system e.g vm's 
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</b></details>
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<summary>Explain what the following commands do:
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  * <code>terraform init</code>
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  * <code>terraform plan</code>
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  * <code>terraform validate</code>
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  * <code>terraform apply</code>
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  * <code>terraform init</code> initialises and downloads the provider's binary as described in the .tf files
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  * <code>terraform plan</code>	is a dry-run listing the services and components that will be provisioned on specified provider's 
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  				platform.
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  * <code>terraform validate</code> parses through the terraform code to ensure that they are both syntactically correct and runtime 
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  				    error free.
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  * <code>terraform apply</code> this command provision's the described services on the providers platform.
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</summary><br><b>
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<code>terraform init</code> scans your code to figure which providers are you using and download them.
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