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Mastering Terraform

You're reading from   Mastering Terraform A practical guide to building and deploying infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835086018
Length 494 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Foundations of Terraform FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Terraform Architecture 3. Chapter 2: Using HashiCorp Configuration Language 4. Chapter 3: Harnessing HashiCorp Utility Providers 5. Part 2: Concepts of Cloud Architecture and Automation
6. Chapter 4: Foundations of Cloud Architecture – Virtual Machines and Infrastructure-as-a-Services 7. Chapter 5: Beyond VMs – Core Concepts of Containers and Kubernetes 8. Chapter 6: Connecting It All Together – GitFlow, GitOps, and CI/CD 9. Part 3: Building Solutions on AWS
10. Chapter 7: Getting Started on AWS – Building Solutions with AWS EC2 11. Chapter 8: Containerize with AWS – Building Solutions with AWS EKS 12. Chapter 9: Go Serverless with AWS – Building Solutions with AWS Lambda 13. Part 4: Building Solutions on Azure
14. Chapter 10: Getting Started on Azure – Building Solutions with Azure Virtual Machines 15. Chapter 11: Containerize on Azure – Building Solutions with Azure Kubernetes Service 16. Chapter 12: Go Serverless on Azure – Building Solutions with Azure Functions 17. Part 5: Building Solutions on Google Cloud
18. Chapter 13: Getting Started on Google Cloud – Building Solutions with GCE 19. Chapter 14: Containerize on Google Cloud – Building Solutions with GKE 20. Chapter 15: Go Serverless on Google Cloud – Building Solutions with Google Cloud Functions 21. Part 6: Day 2 Operations and Beyond
22. Chapter 16: Already Provisioned? Strategies for Importing Existing Environments 23. Chapter 17: Managing Production Environments with Terraform 24. Chapter 18: Looking Ahead – Certification, Emerging Trends, and Next Steps 25. Index 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Meta-arguments

Meta-arguments are attributes that you can set on any resource block. They allow you to control different aspects of the resource related to its context, dependencies, and lifecycle. Each meta-argument enables finer-grained control over that resource by allowing the developer to give very focused resource-specific instructions to Terraform.

Provider

The provider meta-argument is a reference that allows you to specify under which provider context you would like to deploy the resource. The scope of the context is dependent on the provider you are using. The two most common scopes are which region you are deploying to within a public cloud and what authentication credential you are using.

You will need to understand the specific scoping mechanism of your providers. This book will use the aws, azurerm, and google providers. Each provider defines its scope differently. The scope of the AWS provider is an AWS account and an AWS Region. The scope for the GCP provider...

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