Summary

In this chapter, we’ve discussed Terraform’s core and understood some of the most common commands and functionalities from a hands-on perspective. We started with understanding IaC, introduced Terraform as an IaC tool, installed Terraform, understood Terraform providers, and used the Azure Terraform provider to manage infrastructure in Azure.

We then looked at Terraform variables and multiple ways of supplying values to the variables. We discussed the core Terraform workflow and several commands you would use to manage infrastructure using Terraform. We then looked at Terraform modules and then at Terraform state as an essential component that helps Terraform keep track of the infrastructure it is managing.

We looked at local and remote state storage and used Azure Blob Storage as the remote state backend. We then discussed Terraform workspaces and how they enable us to use the same Terraform configuration to build multiple environments with hands-on exercises...