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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

You're reading from   HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide Pass the Terraform Associate exam and manage IaC to scale across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565975
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ravi Mishra Ravi Mishra
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know IaC 3. Chapter 2: Terraform Installation Guide 4. Section 2: Core Concepts
5. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Terraform 6. Chapter 4: Deep Dive into Terraform 7. Chapter 5: Terraform CLI 8. Chapter 6: Terraform Workflows 9. Chapter 7: Terraform Modules 10. Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
11. Chapter 8: Terraform Configuration Files 12. Chapter 9: Understanding Terraform Stacks 13. Chapter 10: Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise 14. Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary
15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 4: Deep Dive into Terraform

In the previous chapter, we discussed Terraform providers, which mainly help Terraform to understand which API to use for deployment. We also covered Terraform resources, which help you to consume the provider's service API to provision the respective services. Moving on, we discussed taking input from users by defining Terraform variables, which make Terraform code reusable. We also saw how you can validate the output of the resources that you have provisioned or that already exist using Terraform output, and finally, we discussed how you can use already-existing resources by calling the Terraform data block in your configuration code.

In this chapter, we are going to discuss the Terraform backend, which helps you to store your Terraform tfstate file. Furthermore, we will be covering Terraform provisioners, which help you to execute script within the Terraform configuration code. Later, we will be discussing different Terraform loops (iterations...

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