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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

You're reading from   HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide Pass the Terraform Associate exam and manage IaC to scale across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565975
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ravi Mishra Ravi Mishra
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know IaC FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Terraform Installation Guide 4. Section 2: Core Concepts
5. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Terraform 6. Chapter 4: Deep Dive into Terraform 7. Chapter 5: Terraform CLI 8. Chapter 6: Terraform Workflows 9. Chapter 7: Terraform Modules 10. Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
11. Chapter 8: Terraform Configuration Files 12. Chapter 9: Understanding Terraform Stacks 13. Chapter 10: Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise 14. Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary
15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Terraform stacks

Suppose you are working with one of your colleagues, John. You and John have been assigned to deploy 50 virtual machines, 20 virtual networks, 10 web apps, and 5 function apps in Azure. You have many questions about this infrastructure deployment in Azure, such as how you will provision this whole infrastructure, what will be the easiest way to perform the deployment, and how you would you scale this infrastructure up or down if, in the near future, the addition or deletion of resources needs to be performed. In response to these questions, John says that you should be able to use Terraform configuration files for the deployment and management of the complete infrastructure. He also suggests writing Terraform modules for each resource and getting them published to GitHub or Terraform Registry; then, later on, stacks of the infrastructure can be prepared by referencing the modules. Preparing these stacks for infrastructure provisioning and management would...

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