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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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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

Collaborative Infrastructure

By this chapter, you've learned how to create and manage your infrastructure with Terraform. However, all the topics we have discussed apply only to a single-person operations department. If you are the only one using Terraform in your team, then you have all the knowledge already. Eventually, operations teams will reduce in size, and what required a dozen system admins in the past will require only a couple of them, the ones that are experienced in both operations and software development. Even then, it's not a single person, but at least a couple : having just one infrastructure engineer in a company is an example of a single point of failure.

And when you have multiple colleagues working on Terraform templates, you have a whole new package of problems to solve. How do you store your templates? How do you organize and split them? Where...

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