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

Using the remote backend in Terraform Cloud

Throughout this book, we have discussed storing and sharing the Terraform state.

In the Protecting the state file in the Azure remote backend recipe in Chapter 8, Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform, we saw a concrete case of this when we set up and used a backend in Azure (using Azure Storage). However, this recipe can only be applied with an Azure subscription. The different types of backends listed at https://www.terraform.io/docs/backends/types/index.html mostly require you to purchase platforms or tools.

One of Terraform Cloud’s primary features is that it allows you to host the state.

In this recipe, we will learn how to use the cloud backend, which refers to Terraform Cloud.

Getting ready

The prerequisite for this recipe (as for all the others in this chapter) is that you have an account on Terraform Cloud (http://app.terraform.io/) and are logged in. Furthermore, you will need to create a project...