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Terraform Cookbook

By : Mikael Krief
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Terraform Cookbook

By: Mikael Krief

Overview of this book

HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) has changed how we define and provision a data center infrastructure with the launch of Terraform—one of the most popular and powerful products for building Infrastructure as Code. This practical guide will show you how to leverage HashiCorp's Terraform tool to manage a complex infrastructure with ease. Starting with recipes for setting up the environment, this book will gradually guide you in configuring, provisioning, collaborating, and building a multi-environment architecture. Unlike other books, you’ll also be able to explore recipes with real-world examples to provision your Azure infrastructure with Terraform. Once you’ve covered topics such as Azure Template, Azure CLI, Terraform configuration, and Terragrunt, you’ll delve into manual and automated testing with Terraform configurations. The next set of chapters will show you how to manage a balanced and efficient infrastructure and create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules. Finally, you’ll explore the latest DevOps trends such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and zero-downtime deployments. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to get the most value out of Terraform and manage your infrastructure effectively.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Technical requirements

The primary prerequisite for this chapter is to have an account on the Terraform Cloud platform. Creating an account is simple and offers a free plan. You can do this at https://app.terraform.io/signup/account.

For all the recipes in this chapter, we will already be connected to Terraform Cloud via a web browser.

After registering for an account, it will be necessary (if you haven't done so already) to create an organization by clicking on the Create organization link.

For detailed steps regarding how to create an account and organization, follow the Terraform learning process at https://learn.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-getting-started/signup. For more information on organizations, read the documentation at https://www.terraform.io/docs/cloud/users-teams-organizations/organizations.html#creating-organizations.

Finally, it's important that you're familiar with the concept of workspaces in Terraform Cloud (which is a little different from the workspaces...