Root module is the official terminology used in Hashicorps own documentation. That's actually the term I'm most familiar with in my own experience. https://dev

Root module is the official terminology used in Hashicorps own documentation. That's actually the term I'm most familiar with in my own experience. https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/modules/syntax https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/modules/s... > Every Terraform configuration has at least one module, known as its root module, which consists of the resources defined in the .tf files in the main working directory.