Add a Navigation Term Set in a Site Definition

Question

I am new to SharePoint 2013. I am trying to provision a new site with an initial term set used for navigation.

I was thinking i could use Visual Studio & create a Site Definition--similar to using <NavBars> in onet.xml. Is there an equivalent for using managed metadata instead?

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Start here. It speaks to using Term sets for global navigation.

Overview of managed navigation in SharePoint Server 2013 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn194311%28v=office.15%29.aspx#section1

You can find step by step instructions here:

http://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/2012/07/20/sharepoint-2013-navigation-using-managed-metadata-term-store-aspx/

You can implement these changes post deployment of your site definition.

https://manojssharepointblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/programmatically-creating-group-termset-and-term-in-manage-metadata-service-in-sharepoint-2013/

You can also create these with code.