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Terraform Cookbook

You're reading from   Terraform Cookbook Efficiently define, launch, and manage Infrastructure as Code across various cloud platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207554
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mikael Krief Mikael Krief
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up the Terraform Environment 2. Writing Terraform Configuration FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Dynamic Environments with Terraform 4. Using the Terraform CLI 5. Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules 6. Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform 7. Deep Diving into Terraform 8. Using Terraform Cloud to Improve Collaboration 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with workspaces in CI/CD

In the Using workspaces for managing environments recipe in Chapter 4, Using the Terraform CLI, we studied the use of some Terraform commands to manage and create workspaces. In Terraform's vision, workspaces make it possible to manage several environments by creating several Terraform state files for the same Terraform configuration.

In this recipe, we will go further with the use of workspaces by automating their creation in a CI/CD pipeline.

Getting ready

The prerequisite for this recipe is to know the Terraform command-line options for the workspaces, the documentation for which is available at https://www.terraform.io/docs/commands/workspace/index.html.

Concerning the CI/CD pipeline, we will implement it in Azure Pipelines, which we have already seen in this chapter, in the Building CI/CD pipelines for Terraform configuration in Azure Pipelines recipe.

The purpose of this recipe is to illustrate a scenario I recently implemented, which is the...

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