You're reading from Terraform Cookbook Master Infrastructure as Code efficiency with real-world Azure automation using Terraform

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804616420

Length 634 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Mikael Krief

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up the Terraform Environment

2. Writing Terraform Configurations FREE CHAPTER

3. Scaling Your Infrastructure with Terraform

4. Using Terraform with External Data

5. Managing Terraform State

6. Applying a Basic Terraform Workflow

7. Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules

8. Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform

9. Getting Starting to Provisioning AWS and GCP Infrastructure Using Terraform

10. Using Terraform for Docker and Kubernetes Deployment

11. Running Test and Compliance Security on Terraform Configuration

12. Deep-Diving into Terraform

13. Automating Terraform Execution in a CI/CD Pipeline

14. Using Terraform Cloud to Improve Team Collaboration

15. Troubleshooting Terraform Errors

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

Appendix A: Terraform Cheat Sheet

1. Appendix B: Terraform Resources

Migrating Terraform State to Terraform Cloud

In the previous recipe, we learned how to use Terraform Cloud as a remote backend. In Chapter 5, Managing Terraform State, we learned how to operate the state. We will now combine both of these skills into one project. In this recipe, we will learn how to migrate the existing state to Terraform Cloud.

In general, when you migrate a state from one backend to another, if you don’t follow the state migration procedure, Terraform will see a new backend in its configuration. Then, it will want to delete the resources, so you’ll have to recreate them in the new state, which will cause a service interruption.

To avoid having to reprovision resources, we need to migrate the state to Terraform Cloud.

Let’s get started!

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you’ll need to use the same version of Terraform CLI between the time of the original state creation and the time you will operate the migration...