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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

Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary

In this glossary, we are going to list all the acronyms and key terms used throughout this book. This will help to clarify all the technical terms. These terms should assist in helping you to get to grips with the different conversations currently taking place in the Terraform community:

  • API: An application programming interface. This is an interface that has been designed to manipulate some functionality of an application. Terraform uses cloud or on-premises API software to manage infrastructure. Terraform resources are responsible for mapping to each API call that is required to create, update, or delete the infrastructure.

Terraform Cloud also has APIs that can be used to easily manage policies and workspaces.

  • Apply: This is one of the phases in the Terraform life cycle that helps Terraform to perform implementation by accepting planned changes, or to make real changes to the Terraform providers using their resource APIs.
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