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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

You're reading from   HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide Pass the Terraform Associate exam and manage IaC to scale across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565975
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ravi Mishra Ravi Mishra
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know IaC 3. Chapter 2: Terraform Installation Guide 4. Section 2: Core Concepts
5. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Terraform 6. Chapter 4: Deep Dive into Terraform 7. Chapter 5: Terraform CLI 8. Chapter 6: Terraform Workflows 9. Chapter 7: Terraform Modules 10. Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
11. Chapter 8: Terraform Configuration Files 12. Chapter 9: Understanding Terraform Stacks 13. Chapter 10: Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise 14. Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary
15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Knowing about Terraform resources

Having acquired a good understanding of Terraform providers, now we are going to discuss resources in Terraform. Let's try to understand how a resource code block is defined in the Terraform configuration file and why it is so important. First of all, let's see what a Terraform resource is.

Terraform resources

Resources are the most important code blocks in the Terraform language. By defining a resource code block in the configuration file, you are letting Terraform know which infrastructure objects you are planning to create, delete, or update, such as compute, virtual network, or higher-level PaaS components, such as web apps and databases. When you define a resource code block in the configuration file, it starts with the provider name at the very beginning, for example, aws_instance, azurerm_subnet, and google_app_engine_application.

Azure Terraform resource

It is very important for you to understand how you should write your...

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