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

Using the Terraform module generator

We learned how to create, use, and share a Terraform module and we studied the module file structure best practices, which consist of having a main file, another for variables, and another that contains the outputs of the module. In the Sharing a Terraform module in the public registry using GitHub recipe, we also discussed that we could document the use of the module with a README.md file.

Apart from these standard files for the operation of the module, we can also add scripts, tests (which we will see in the Testing Terraform module code with Terratest recipe), and other files.

For company projects that may need to create a lot of Terraform modules, recreating the structure of the module every time can be a very repetitive and boring task.

To facilitate the creation of the structure of Terraform modules, Microsoft has published a tool that allows us to generate the basic structure (also called a template) of a Terraform module.

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