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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed different HashiCorp products under the umbrella of Terraform, such as Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise. We also discussed how Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise can help you to collaborate between teams. We also understood the advantages we can expect when using Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise. We further discussed Terraform Sentinel (that is, policy as code), which can be introduced in between terraform plan and terraform apply phases so that Terraform performs a precheck, and if the configuration passes through all the necessary checks or the policy gets overridden by authorized users, only then will the terraform apply phase get executed. This whole chapter should help you in selecting the right Terraform products, depending upon the use case, and shows how you can implement a policy check before an actual infrastructure gets provisioned.

In our next chapter, we will discuss some Terraform acronyms in brief.