HashiCorp configuration language, aka HashiCorp configuration language, is an actively used meta language created in 2014. HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) is a configuration language built by HashiCorp. The goal of HCL is to build a structured configuration language that is both human and machine friendly for use with command-line tools, but specifically targeted towards DevOps tools, servers, etc. HCL is also fully JSON compatible. That is, JSON can be used as completely valid input to a system expecting HCL. This helps makes systems interoperable with other systems. HCL is heavily inspired by libucl, nginx configuration, and others similar.

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  • HashiCorp configuration language on github
  • HashiCorp configuration language first appeared in 2014
  • file extensions for HashiCorp configuration language include hcl, tf, tfvars and workflow
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Example code from the web:

variable "ami" {
   description = "the AMI to use"
}
<<FOO
hello
world
FOO

Example code from Linguist:

consul = "1.2.3.4"

// This is a comment
template "foo" {
  bar = "zip"
}

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Last updated February 18th, 2020

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