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

Using the AzApi Terraform provider

The azurerm provider is an open source project that is maintained by HashiCorp, Microsoft, and by the community.

Its evolution depends on multiple factors like issue triage, maintenance work, and the Go Azure SDK version that is maintained by another team.

With all this, preview features of Azure are not added in real time in the azurerm provider.

So, if we want to use the Azure preview feature or another feature that might not yet be implemented in the azurerm provider, we can integrate it in the Terraform configuration in several ways, as we already learned:

Use a null_resource resource that calls the az cli command, which we learned about previously in this chapter in the Executing Azure CLI commands in Terraform recipe.
Use an ARM template deployed with a resource, which we learned about previously in this chapter in the Executing ARM templates in Terraform recipe

Since April 2022, we can use the new AzApi...