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

Deploying a Helm chart in Kubernetes using Terraform

In the previous recipe, we learned how to deploy Kubernetes applications resources using Terraform and the kubernetes provider.

Among the different ways to deploy an application in Kubernetes, there is also the possibility to use (or deploy) a Helm chart.

We will not explain here in detail the use and creation of a Helm chart, but to explain simply, a Helm chart is a package that contains a template of Kubernetes resources to deploy.

For all the details about Helm chart usage and creation, read the documentation here: https://helm.sh/docs/.

In this recipe, we will learn how to deploy a Helm chart in Kubernetes using Terraform.

Let’s get started!

Getting ready

For the cluster provisioning, we will use the existing Kubernetes cluster.

To illustrate this recipe, we will deploy a sample application, which is the nginx ingress controller. The documentation on the nginx ingress controller is available...