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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

You're reading from   Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance Efficiently set data protection and privacy principles

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788299558
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. The Fundamentals of Cloud Security FREE CHAPTER 2. Defense in Depth Approach 3. Designing Defensive Network Infrastructure 4. Server Hardening 5. Cryptography Network Security 6. Automation in Security 7. Vulnerability, Pentest, and Patch Management 8. Security Logging and Monitoring 9. First Responder 10. Best Practices

Terraform

In the previous section, we discussed Ansible and its associated best practices. Although being an amazing configuration management tool, it exhales in its domain. However, when it comes to infrastructure provisioning, there is yet another amazing tool called Terraform.

Terraform is a tool that allows users to build, update, and change infrastructure in a safe and efficient manner.

Similarly, just as we automate day-to-day tasks such as adding/removing users and perform certain activities with the help of Ansible, we can automate the entire infrastructure provisioning with Terraform. Let's understand this with a use case:

Infrastructure migration

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