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Terraform Cookbook

You're reading from   Terraform Cookbook Efficiently define, launch, and manage Infrastructure as Code across various cloud platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207554
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mikael Krief Mikael Krief
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up the Terraform Environment 2. Writing Terraform Configuration FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Dynamic Environments with Terraform 4. Using the Terraform CLI 5. Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules 6. Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform 7. Deep Diving into Terraform 8. Using Terraform Cloud to Improve Collaboration 9. Other Books You May Enjoy
Using the Terraform CLI

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that consists of two linked elements: the Terraform configuration, written in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), which describes the infrastructure we want to provision, and the Terraform client tool, which will analyze and execute our Terraform configuration. In the previous two chapters, we have studied a variety of recipes on writing Terraform configuration using variables, functions, and expressions of HCL.

In this chapter, we will focus on the use of Terraform with its command lines and options. We will discuss how to have the code well presented, the destruction of resources, and the use of workspaces. Then we will learn how to import already existing resources, the taint functionality, and finally, we will see how to generate a dependency graph and debug the execution of Terraform.

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