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Getting Started with Terraform

You're reading from   Getting Started with Terraform Infrastructure automation made easy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465108
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kirill Shirinkin Kirill Shirinkin
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Infrastructure Automation FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying First Server 3. Resource Dependencies and Modules 4. Storing and Supplying Configuration 5. Connecting with Other Tools 6. Scaling and Updating Infrastructure 7. Collaborative Infrastructure 8. Future of Terraform

Summary

It's been another long chapter to digest and a ton of new things to learn and try. You started it by learning Git and how to organize work though Git branches, remote repositories, and code review. You learned how to easily store secrets in a setup like this with git-crypt. After this, we took a look at the remote storage of state files for Terraform, and at various methods to split the Terraform code inside the organization.

As part of this, we wrote our first completely remote Terraform module, refactored the whole IAM and VPC management away from the main repository, and connected it all nicely in a small and clean template. To avoid conflicts and to better structure the infrastructure work, we set up the Terragrunt utility and learned how to use it too.

We took the whole Infrastructure as Code idea to the extreme, by introducing a complete Continuous Integration pipeline for the infrastructure (and learned a bit of GitLab CI). As a final battle, we even created a real...

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