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

Overviewing Terraform best practices

Before starting to learn how to install Terraform through the recipes presented in this chapter, it’s necessary to understand the most common best practices of IaC with Terraform.

The first group of best practices is about IaC and are best practices for development in general:

Store all Terraform configuration files and source code using a version control system such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, or Bitbucket.
When the code is in Git, apply all good Git practices using branches, tags, commits, comments, and pull requests.
Decouple your code file with multiple components; having a big monolithic code structure will make maintenance and deployment more difficult.
Modularize and share common code for better reusability. For example, do not repeat the same code (as per the Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle) and share the same business logic between components. We will learn about Terraform module implementation...