Do it once manually – rinse and repeat with Terraform
Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that lets you build, change, and version infrastructure safely and efficiently. This recipe will provide a general overview of a good technique for automating the ugly with Terraform. What do I mean by ugly? Well, it’s anything that’s being done manually. We want to cut out the manual steps and automate as much as possible. In the case of Terraform specifically, this means we’re going to automate the deployment of cloud infrastructure. Thanks to Terraform, we no longer need to click around through a hundred different menu settings. Instead, we’re going to define our infrastructure as code. This results in faster and more consistent deployments. Additionally, it’s also much easier to make changes to your infrastructure since it can all be edited via code.
Getting started
You will need the following for this recipe:
- Oracle Linux...
