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

Executing Azure CLI commands in Terraform

In the previous recipe, we studied how to run ARM templates with Terraform in a situation where the provisioned resource is not yet available in the azurerm provider.

However, there are cases where the use of an ARM template is not possible, such as the following:

We want to fill in one or more properties of a resource, which are not available in an ARM template.
The ARM template is not available for the resource to be provisioned.

For these situations, there is another solution, which entails executing Azure CLI commands with Terraform.

This recipe is a practical application of the Executing local programs with Terraform recipe from Chapter 4, Using Terraform with External Data. We will study the Terraform configuration and its execution to integrate Azure CLI commands with Terraform.