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

Applying a Basic Terraform Workflow

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that consists of linked elements: the Terraform configuration, written in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), which describes the infrastructure we want to provision; the Terraform CLI, which will analyze and execute our Terraform configuration; and the Terraform State. In Chapter 2, Writing Terraform Configurations, and Chapter 3, Scaling Your Infrastructure with Terraform, we studied a variety of recipes on writing Terraform configuration using variables, loops, functions, and expressions of the language.

In this chapter, we will focus on the use of the Terraform CLI with its commands and options to operate the basic Terraform workflow. We will discuss how to present the configuration well and validate the syntax, the destruction of resources, how to list used providers, and the use of workspaces. Then we will learn the taint functionality, and we will see how to generate a dependency graph...