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

Exporting the output in JSON

In the Looping over object collections and Using outputs to expose Terraform provisioned data recipes of Chapter 2, Writing Terraform Configurations, we discussed the use of Terraform’s outputs, which allow you to have output values for the execution of the Terraform configuration.

Indeed, we have seen how to declare an output in the Terraform configuration, and we learned that these outputs and their values were displayed at the end of the execution of the terraform apply command.

The advantage of these outputs is that they can be retrieved by another program and, thus, be used for another operation – for example, in a CI/CD pipeline.

In this recipe, we will see how the values of the outputs can be retrieved in JSON format so that they can be used in an external program.