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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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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

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

Using the Terraform module generator

We learned how to create, use, and share a Terraform module and we studied the module's files structure good practices, which consists of having a main file, another for variables, and another that contains the outputs of the module. In the Sharing a Terraform module 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 with large infrastructures and a lot of resources to be provided with Terraform, we will need to create a lot of Terraform modules.

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

In this recipe, we will see how to create the base...

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