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Getting Started with Terraform

You're reading from   Getting Started with Terraform Infrastructure automation made easy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465108
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kirill Shirinkin Kirill Shirinkin
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Infrastructure Automation FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying First Server 3. Resource Dependencies and Modules 4. Storing and Supplying Configuration 5. Connecting with Other Tools 6. Scaling and Updating Infrastructure 7. Collaborative Infrastructure 8. Future of Terraform

Chapter 1. Infrastructure Automation

Before starting to learn Terraform, you first need to learn certain concepts in the modern infrastructure. To be able to use the new tool, one needs to understand what problem it solves. In order to do it, this chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Learning what Infrastructure as Code is and why it is needed
  • Understanding the benefits of declarative approach for configuration management
  • Explaining the missing points of configuration management tools
  • Laying out requirements for high-level infrastructure automation
  • Taking a quick look at main tools in order to provision infrastructure
  • The short overview and history of Terraform
  • What you will learn in this book
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Getting Started with Terraform
Published in: Jan 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781786465108
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