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Architecting AWS with Terraform

You're reading from   Architecting AWS with Terraform Design resilient and secure Cloud Infrastructures with Terraform on Amazon Web Services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248561
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Erol Kavas Erol Kavas
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Preface 1. Part 1:Introduction to IAC and Terraform in AWS
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Patterns and Antipatterns of IaC and Terraform FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: How Not to Use IaC and Terraform 4. Chapter 3: Building Your First Terraform Project 5. Chapter 4: Discovering Best Practices for Terraform IaC Projects 6. Part 2:Become an Expert in Terraform with AWS
7. Chapter 5: Planning and Designing Infrastructure Projects in AWS 8. Chapter 6: Making Decisions for Terraform Projects with AWS 9. Chapter 7: Implementing Terraform in Projects 10. Chapter 8: Deploying Serverless Projects with Terraform 11. Chapter 9: Deploying Containers in AWS with Terraform 12. Part 3:How to Structure and Advance Terraform in Enterprises
13. Chapter 10: Leveraging Terraform for the Enterprise 14. Chapter 11: Building Git Workflows for IaC and Terraform Projects 15. Chapter 12: Automating the Deployment of Terraform Projects 16. Chapter 13: Governing AWS with Terraform 17. Chapter 14: Building a Secure Infrastructure with AWS Terraform 18. Chapter 15: Perfecting AWS Infrastructure with Terraform 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Selecting AWS public modules for your needs

To use a public module in Terraform, you need to specify the source of the module in a module block in your configuration. You can specify the source of a module using a local path, Terraform Public Registry, a Git repository URL, or a URL to a compressed archive file (e.g. a .zip or .tar.gz file).

Here are some examples of how you can specify the source of a public module in a module block:

Local path: To use a module from a local directory, specify the path to the directory as the source attribute, for example:

module "web_server_cluster" {
  source = "./web_server_cluster"
}

This specifies that the web_server_cluster module is located in a local directory named web_server_cluster.

Git repository: To use a module from a Git repository, specify the URL of the repository as the source attribute, for example:

module "web_server_cluster" {
  source = "git::https://github...
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