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 local programs with Terraform

As we saw in the previous recipe regarding file manipulation, apart from infrastructure provisioning, Terraform also allows you to run programs or scripts that are located on the local workstation where Terraform has been installed.

In this recipe, we will learn how to execute a local program inside a Terraform configuration.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will complete the Terraform configuration that we used in the previous recipe to write a file on the local machine. Our goal will be to execute a PowerShell command with Terraform that will read and display the contents of the file that we have written using Terraform.

The technical requirement for this recipe is that we will run this Terraform script on a Windows operating system. You can of course adapt it to run programs on Linux or Mac operating systems or use the Terraform Shell provider, which we will learn about in the next recipe.

The source code...