You're reading from Terraform Cookbook Master Infrastructure as Code efficiency with real-world Azure automation using Terraform

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804616420

Length 634 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Mikael Krief

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up the Terraform Environment

2. Writing Terraform Configurations FREE CHAPTER

3. Scaling Your Infrastructure with Terraform

4. Using Terraform with External Data

5. Managing Terraform State

6. Applying a Basic Terraform Workflow

7. Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules

8. Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform

9. Getting Starting to Provisioning AWS and GCP Infrastructure Using Terraform

10. Using Terraform for Docker and Kubernetes Deployment

11. Running Test and Compliance Security on Terraform Configuration

12. Deep-Diving into Terraform

13. Automating Terraform Execution in a CI/CD Pipeline

14. Using Terraform Cloud to Improve Team Collaboration

15. Troubleshooting Terraform Errors

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

Appendix A: Terraform Cheat Sheet

1. Appendix B: Terraform Resources

Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules

A common problem most developers face in any language is code reuse and how to do it effectively and easily. Hence, the emergence of language, framework, and software packages that are easily reusable in several applications and that can be shared between several teams (such as NuGet, NPM, Bower, PyPI, RubyGems, and many others). In Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in general, we also encounter the same problems of code structure, its homogenization, and its sharing in the company.

In the Provisioning infrastructure in multiple environments recipe in Chapter 3, Scaling Your Infrastructure with Terraform, we learned about some hierarchies of the Terraform configuration, which gave us a partial answer to the question of how to structure a Terraform configuration well. But that doesn’t stop there—Terraform also allows you to create modules with which you can share Terraform configuration between several applications and several...