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

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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

Managing Terraform configuration dependencies using Terragrunt

In several recipes in this book, we have discussed the organization of the files that contain the Terraform configuration. We examined this more specifically in the Provisioning infrastructure in multiple environments recipe in Chapter 2, Writing Terraform Configurations, which outlines several architecture solutions.

One of the best practices regarding the structure of the configuration is to separate the Terraform configuration into infrastructure and application components, as explained in the article at https://www.cloudreach.com/en/resources/blog/how-to-simplify-your-terraform-code-structure/. The challenge with a structure split into several configurations is the maintenance of dependencies and run schedules between these components.

Among all the third-party tools that revolve around Terraform, there is Terragrunt (https://terragrunt.gruntwork.io/), developed by Gruntwork. Terragrunt is open-source and offers...