You're reading from Terraform Cookbook Master Infrastructure as Code efficiency with real-world Azure automation using Terraform

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804616420

Length 634 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

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DevOps

Author (1):

Mikael Krief

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up the Terraform Environment

2. Writing Terraform Configurations FREE CHAPTER

3. Scaling Your Infrastructure with Terraform

4. Using Terraform with External Data

5. Managing Terraform State

6. Applying a Basic Terraform Workflow

7. Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules

8. Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform

9. Getting Starting to Provisioning AWS and GCP Infrastructure Using Terraform

10. Using Terraform for Docker and Kubernetes Deployment

11. Running Test and Compliance Security on Terraform Configuration

12. Deep-Diving into Terraform

13. Automating Terraform Execution in a CI/CD Pipeline

14. Using Terraform Cloud to Improve Team Collaboration

15. Troubleshooting Terraform Errors

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

Appendix A: Terraform Cheat Sheet

1. Appendix B: Terraform Resources

Using Terraform’s templating feature

Terraform is a very good IaC tool that allows us to build complex infrastructure with code. One of Terraform’s features is the ability to generate text or files based on templates. To illustrate this feature, let’s take a look at a use case I came upon in one of our companies. Of course, there are plenty of use cases for templating with Terraform.

The scenario I’d like to illustrate is the possibility of generating an Ansible inventory file containing the list of host VMs to be configured (using Ansible playbooks) from Terraform configuration, which will have previously provisioned these VMs.

As we studied in Chapter 8, Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform, concerning the construction of virtual machines, on all cloud providers, the common objective of Terraform is to build a VM without configuring it, which includes the installation of its middleware and its administration.

Ansible (https://www...

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