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

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Mikael Krief

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

Destroying infrastructure resources

As we have said many times in this book, IaC allows the rapid provisioning of infrastructure.

Another advantage of IaC is that it allows a quick build and the cleaning up of resources that have been provisioned.

Indeed, we may need to clean up an infrastructure for different reasons. Here are a few examples:

We destroy an infrastructure with a view to rebuilding it better in accordance with new specifications.
We provide an infrastructure on demand, which means it is temporary for a specific need (such as to test a new feature or a new branch of the application). And this infrastructure must be capable of being built and destroyed quickly and automatically.
We want to remove unused infrastructure and, at the same time, no longer pay for it.

In this recipe, we will discuss how to destroy an infrastructure that has been provisioned with Terraform.