Chapter 6: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform
Cloud computing is one of the primary factors of DevOps' enablement today. The initial apprehensions that there were about the cloud are a thing of the past. With an army of security and compliance experts manning cloud platforms 24x7, organizations are now trusting the public cloud like never before. Along with cloud computing, another buzzword is taking the industry by storm – Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This chapter will focus on IaC with Terraform, and by the end of this chapter, you will understand the concept and have enough hands-on experience with Terraform to get you started in your journey.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Introduction to IaC
- Setting up Terraform and Azure providers
- Understanding Terraform workflows and creating your first resource using Terraform
- Terraform state and backends
- Terraform workspaces
- Terraform outputs, state...
