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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 FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know IaC 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

Integrating with AWS

As we discussed earlier how you can authenticate Terraform to Azure, let's now try to understand how we can authenticate Terraform with AWS. Here are the methods that allow Terraform to get authenticated in AWS:

  • Static credentials
  • Environment variables
  • Shared credentials/configuration file
  • CodeBuild, Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) roles
  • Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance Metadata Service (IMDS), and IMDSv2

For detailed information about how you can authenticate Terraform to AWS, you can visit https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs. Discussing all of the methods is beyond the scope of this book, but we will nevertheless discuss one of the methods and show you how you can provision services in AWS.

Authentication using an access key ID and secret

To authenticate using an access key ID and secret, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to your AWS console...
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