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Terraform Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804616420
Length 634 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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

Copying a Terraform module configuration

In Chapter 3, Scaling Your Infrastructure with Terraform, in the recipe Provisioning infrastructure in multiple environments, we learned about different types of folder structures to organize your Terraform configuration.

In this recipe, we will walk through another method to share one Terraform configuration in a shared folder, and we will use the Terraform CLI to retrieve this shared configuration inside our current Terraform configuration.

Let’s get started!

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, we will use a sample Terraform configuration that provisions an Azure resource group.

The goal of this recipe is to share this Terraform configuration to a separate and centralized folder and access the configuration from inside that folder by using the init command .

For the shared Terraform configuration, we will reuse the Terraform configuration that we wrote in the previous chapter, the source code of which is...

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