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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By : Ravi Mishra
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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By: Ravi Mishra

Overview of this book

Terraform is a highly sought-after technology for orchestrating infrastructure provisioning. This book is a complete reference guide to enhancing your infrastructure automation skills, offering up-to-date coverage of the HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam. This book is written in a clear and practical way with self-assessment questions and mock exams that will help you from a HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam perspective. This book covers end-to-end activities with Terraform, such as installation, writing its configuration file, Terraform modules, backend configurations, data sources, and infrastructure provisioning. You'll also get to grips with complex enterprise infrastructures and discover how to create thousands of resources with a single click. As you advance, you'll get a clear understanding of maintaining infrastructure as code (IaC) in Repo/GitHub, along with learning how to create, modify, and remove infrastructure resources as and when needed. Finally, you'll learn about Terraform Cloud and Enterprise and their enhanced features. By the end of this book, you'll have a handy, up-to-date desktop reference guide along with everything you need to pass the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate exam with confidence.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: Core Concepts
10
Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
14
Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary

Understanding Terraform stacks

Suppose you are working with one of your colleagues, John. You and John have been assigned to deploy 50 virtual machines, 20 virtual networks, 10 web apps, and 5 function apps in Azure. You have many questions about this infrastructure deployment in Azure, such as how you will provision this whole infrastructure, what will be the easiest way to perform the deployment, and how you would you scale this infrastructure up or down if, in the near future, the addition or deletion of resources needs to be performed. In response to these questions, John says that you should be able to use Terraform configuration files for the deployment and management of the complete infrastructure. He also suggests writing Terraform modules for each resource and getting them published to GitHub or Terraform Registry; then, later on, stacks of the infrastructure can be prepared by referencing the modules. Preparing these stacks for infrastructure provisioning and management would...