You're reading from Mastering Terraform A practical guide to building and deploying infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835086018

Length 494 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Mark Tinderholt

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Foundations of Terraform FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Terraform Architecture

3. Chapter 2: Using HashiCorp Configuration Language

4. Chapter 3: Harnessing HashiCorp Utility Providers

5. Part 2: Concepts of Cloud Architecture and Automation

6. Chapter 4: Foundations of Cloud Architecture – Virtual Machines and Infrastructure-as-a-Services

7. Chapter 5: Beyond VMs – Core Concepts of Containers and Kubernetes

8. Chapter 6: Connecting It All Together – GitFlow, GitOps, and CI/CD

9. Part 3: Building Solutions on AWS

10. Chapter 7: Getting Started on AWS – Building Solutions with AWS EC2

11. Chapter 8: Containerize with AWS – Building Solutions with AWS EKS

12. Chapter 9: Go Serverless with AWS – Building Solutions with AWS Lambda

13. Part 4: Building Solutions on Azure

14. Chapter 10: Getting Started on Azure – Building Solutions with Azure Virtual Machines

15. Chapter 11: Containerize on Azure – Building Solutions with Azure Kubernetes Service

16. Chapter 12: Go Serverless on Azure – Building Solutions with Azure Functions

17. Part 5: Building Solutions on Google Cloud

18. Chapter 13: Getting Started on Google Cloud – Building Solutions with GCE

19. Chapter 14: Containerize on Google Cloud – Building Solutions with GKE

20. Chapter 15: Go Serverless on Google Cloud – Building Solutions with Google Cloud Functions

21. Part 6: Day 2 Operations and Beyond

22. Chapter 16: Already Provisioned? Strategies for Importing Existing Environments

23. Chapter 17: Managing Production Environments with Terraform

24. Chapter 18: Looking Ahead – Certification, Emerging Trends, and Next Steps

25. Index

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Getting Started on AWS – Building Solutions with AWS EC2

Now that we have a good foundation of the concepts needed to build real-world cloud solutions and automate them using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, we will start our journey with arguably the most popular cloud platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In this chapter, we’ll take a step-by-step approach to designing, building, and automating a solution using AWS’s virtual machine (VM) service – Elastic Cloud Compute or EC2 for short. We’ll also explore several other AWS services that are crucial for ensuring our solution’s robustness and production readiness, such as secrets management, logging, and network security.

We have much to accomplish, but this is where the rubber hits the road. We’ll begin to really apply the concepts we’ve been discussing and put them into practice on AWS.

This chapter covers the following topics: