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

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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 CDK for developers

So far in this book, we have seen how to write Terraform configuration using HCL. HCL is a configuration language that has the advantage of being easy to read for humans. However, application developers who wanted to use Terraform had to learn a new language.

To address this issue, in August 2022, HashiCorp announced the availability of a Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF). Read the announcement blog post here: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/cdk-for-terraform-now-generally-available.

CDKTF is a tool that allows you to define IaC using familiar programming languages such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, and Java.

With CDKTF, you write code that describes your infrastructure in a higher-level language, allowing for more abstraction layers compared to the Terraform (HCL) language. CDKTF synthesizes your code, i.e., generates the equivalent Terraform configuration under the hood. This allows you to use a familiar programming...

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