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Getting Started with Terraform

Getting Started with Terraform - Second Edition

By : Kirill Shirinkin
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Getting Started with Terraform

Getting Started with Terraform

2.7 (3)
By: Kirill Shirinkin

Overview of this book

Terraform is a tool used to efficiently build, configure, and improve the production infrastructure. It can manage the existing infrastructure as well as create custom in-house solutions. This book shows you when and how to implement infrastructure as a code practices with Terraform. It covers everything necessary to set up the complete management of infrastructure with Terraform, starting with the basics of using providers and resources. It is a comprehensive guide that begins with very small infrastructure templates and takes you all the way to managing complex systems, all using concrete examples that evolve over the course of the book. The book ends with the complete workflow of managing a production infrastructure as code—this is achieved with the help of version control and continuous integration. The readers will also learn how to combine multiple providers in a single template and manage different code bases with many complex modules. It focuses on how to set up continuous integration for the infrastructure code. The readers will be able to use Terraform to build, change, and combine infrastructure safely and efficiently.
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In this book, we will focus on using Terraform in a Linux environment. The general usage of the tool should be the same on all platforms, though some advanced topics and practices discussed in later chapters might apply only to Linux systems.

As mentioned in the previous section, Terraform is distributed as a single binary, packaged inside a ZIP archive. Unfortunately, HashiCorp does not provide native packages for operating systems. That means the first step is to install unzip. Depending on your package manager, this could be done by running sudo yum install unzip, or sudo apt-get install unzip or it might even already be installed. In any case, after making sure that you can unarchive the ZIP files, proceed to downloading Terraform from the official website, https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html.

Unzip it to any convenient folder. Make sure that this folder is available in your PATH environment variable. A full installation command sequence could look as follows...

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