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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

Introducing Terraform Cloud

Terraform Cloud is one of Terraform's software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. It is a hosted service that can be accessed from https://app.terraform.io/. Terraform Cloud provides you with the flexibility to run your Terraform configuration code remotely, but not only this: it also allows you to run configuration code locally and get this stored in the source control repository. If you need to work closely with many colleagues within your team or across other teams, then Terraform Cloud provides great collaboration features. It can hold Terraform state files and secret data safely and securely, allowing you to access these easily. It also provides a private space where you can publish all your modules and consume them as per your requirements, giving you an opportunity to write a policy for governing the code sitting inside the Terraform configuration file. As you may have noticed when using open source Terraform CLI, it uses a persistent working directory...