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Implementing Modern DevOps

You're reading from   Implementing Modern DevOps Enabling IT organizations to deliver faster and smarter

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466877
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Gonzalez David Gonzalez
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Terraform

Terraform is a product developed by HashiCorp. HashiCorp is a company with a strong focus on DevOps tools such as Consul, a highly available distributed key value storage, or Vagrant, a tool to reproduce development environments using the same provisioners as production.

Terraform, as the name hints, allows you to create infrastructure in cloud data centers in a declarative way, keeping track of what was created where, allowing you to apply changes to the infrastructure from the code perspective: your infrastructure is described as the code and, as such, it can follow its life cycle.

The first thing we need to do is download and install Terraform. Just open the https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html URL in a browser and select your platform, in my case, Mac. Terraform is a single binary compressed in a ZIP file (as far as I am aware, it is the same for every platform...

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