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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 Enterprise

Terraform Enterprise is a HashiCorp product that is a self-hosted variant of Terraform Cloud. It is a private instance/server that has a Terraform Cloud application, without having any resource limit and with some additional features such as audit logging and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO). For a detailed understanding about different supported features of Terraform Enterprise, you can refer to https://www.hashicorp.com/products/terraform/pricing. This product is very good for large enterprises with higher numbers of customers. Large-enterprise customers can procure a Terraform Enterprise license from HashiCorp. The deployment of the Terraform Enterprise installer totally depends on the customer and the type of reference architecture they want to refer to Terraform Enterprise. Based on customers' experiences, Terraform has published some reference architecture documentation that can be found at https://www.terraform...