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

Configuring Terraform Cloud with the Terraform TFE provider

In the previous recipes of this chapter, we learned how to use projects, workspaces, and run tasks in Terraform Cloud using the web interface. In a company context, with large-scale infrastructure and a lot of Terraform Cloud organizations and workspaces, the manual actions to configure all of them can be difficult to maintain and need to be automatized.

To automate the configuration of Terraform Cloud, we can use a Terraform provider called TFE.

The TFE provider is specifically designed to configure and manage resources within Terraform Cloud (as well as Terraform Enterprise).

Here are a few reasons why you would use the TFE provider to configure Terraform Cloud:

Integration with Terraform Cloud: The TFE provider allows you to interact with and configure Terraform Cloud resources directly from your Terraform configuration files. It provides a set of resources and data sources that map to various components...