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Getting Started with Terraform - Second Edition

By : Kirill Shirinkin
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Getting Started with Terraform - Second Edition

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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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Immutable infrastructure


When we had bare metal servers, it took a bit of time to provision them. Even today, if you want to get new hardware, it can take days to get it connected and running. Needless to say that you would want to keep them running as long as possible, given the cost of replacement or adding a new one. Then, as automation is a must, instead of configuring these bare metal servers by hand, a set of configuration management tools appeared.

Even with these tools, though, servers are prone to configuration drift; they can diverge a lot from one another and people can still go via SSH and perform changes not captured in infrastructure code.

Don't get me wrong: configuration management is still a must. But the context changed a bit after virtualization was hugely adopted in the form of cloud providers. The time required to create a server was cut down to a few minutes, instead of hours and days. More importantly, the time required to recreate a server is also really low, compared...