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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

Using modules from the public registry

In the previous recipe, we studied how to create a module and how to write a Terraform configuration that uses this module locally.

To facilitate the development of Terraform configuration, HashiCorp has set up a public Terraform module registry.

This registry actually solves several problems, such as the following:

  • Discoverability with search and filter
  • The quality provided via a partner verification process
  • Clear and efficient versioning strategy, which is otherwise impossible to solve universally across other existing module sources (HTTP, S3, and Git)

These public modules published in this registry are developed by cloud providers, publishers, communities, or even individual users who wish to share their modules publicly. In this recipe, we will see how to access this registry and how to use a module that has been published in this public registry.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will write a Terraform code from scratch that does not require...

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