To get the most out of this book

Throughout this book, we'll be using Terraform to build and manage our Consul system, and although knowledge of Terraform would be beneficial, it isn't required. We'll walk through the Terraform code and what it performs in order to create and manage the Consul system. Much of our operations within the book utilize the bash command line. Familiarity with common bash operations and the use of emacs or vi for editing text documents will be useful.