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Terraform Cookbook

You're reading from   Terraform Cookbook Efficiently define, launch, and manage Infrastructure as Code across various cloud platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207554
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mikael Krief Mikael Krief
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Preface 1. Setting Up the Terraform Environment 2. Writing Terraform Configuration FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Dynamic Environments with Terraform 4. Using the Terraform CLI 5. Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules 6. Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform 7. Deep Diving into Terraform 8. Using Terraform Cloud to Improve Collaboration 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing Terraform module code with Terratest

When developing a Terraform module that will be used in multiple Terraform configurations and shared with other teams, there is one step that is often neglected and that is the testing of the module.

Among the Terraform framework and testing tools is the Terratest framework, created by the Gruntwork community (https://gruntwork.io/static/), which is popular and allows testing on code written in the Go language.

In this recipe, we will study how to use Terratest to write and run integration tests on Terraform configuration and modules in particular.

Getting ready

The Terratest test framework is written in Golang (Go language) and the tests run on the Go runtime. That's why, as a prerequisite, we need to install Go by going to https://golang.org/.

The minimum Go version required for Terratest is specified here: https://terratest.gruntwork.io/docs/getting-started/quick-start/#requirements.

Here are some important steps to install Go: for...

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