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

Executing ARM templates in Terraform

Among all the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and languages, there is one provided by Azure called ARM, based on JSON format files, that contains the description of the resources to be provisioned.

To learn more about ARM templates, read the following documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/overview.

When using Terraform to provision resources in Azure, you may need to use resources that are not yet available in the Terraform azurerm provider. Indeed, the azurerm provider is open source and community-based on GitHub and has a large community of contributors, but this is not enough to keep up with all the changes in Azure’s functionalities in real time. This is due to several reasons:

New releases of Azure resources are very frequent.
The Terraform azurerm provider is highly dependent on the Azure Go SDK (https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go), which does...