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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the Terraform backend configuration, which is used to store the Terraform state file, provisioners, which are mainly used to run some sort of script, and built-in functions, which are used to transform data into the desired form so that it can be used in other code configuration blocks. Moving on, we learned how you can perform different kinds of iteration using for and other loops in Terraform, which are helpful when you are looking to provision multiple resources at a time. Then, finally, we discussed Terraform debugging, where you can set the TF_LOG Terraform environment variable to some log level and store it in the provided destination accordingly by defining the Terraform environment variable, such as TF_LOG_PATH.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the authentication of Terraform to Azure, AWS, and GCP. Moving on, we will also be discussing the use of the Terraform CLI, where we will see how we can run different Terraform workflow...

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