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

Running Terraform in automation mode

To start this chapter, in this recipe, we will explain how to enable Terraform to run automatically without user interaction using three different solutions.

Let’s get started!

Getting ready

There are no technical requirements to complete this recipe.

Before learning how to integrate the Terraform execution into a CI/CD pipeline (as we will see in other recipes in this chapters), it’s important to understand how to run Terraform in automation mode locally by manipulating the Terraform CLI options.

The goal of this recipe is to show how to run Terraform automatically using different options in the command line.

How to do it…

To run Terraform in automation mode, we have multiple solutions, which are detailed below:

The first point of automation concerns the entry of the values of the variables during the plan. If our Terraform configuration requires the input of the values of the variables...