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Getting Started with Terraform

You're reading from   Getting Started with Terraform Manage production infrastructure as a code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623537
Length 208 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Kirill Shirinkin Kirill Shirinkin
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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

Preparing work environment

In this book, we will focus on using Terraform in a Linux environment. The general usage of the tool should be the same on all platforms, though some advanced topics and practices discussed in later chapters might apply only to Linux systems.

As mentioned in the previous section, Terraform is distributed as a single binary, packaged inside a ZIP archive. Unfortunately, HashiCorp does not provide native packages for operating systems. That means the first step is to install unzip. Depending on your package manager, this could be done by running sudo yum install unzip, or sudo apt-get install unzip or it might even already be installed. In any case, after making sure that you can unarchive the ZIP files, proceed to downloading Terraform from the official website, https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html.

Unzip it to any convenient folder. Make sure that...

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