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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

Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary

In this glossary, we are going to list all the acronyms and key terms used throughout this book. This will help to clarify all the technical terms. These terms should assist in helping you to get to grips with the different conversations currently taking place in the Terraform community:

  • API: An application programming interface. This is an interface that has been designed to manipulate some functionality of an application. Terraform uses cloud or on-premises API software to manage infrastructure. Terraform resources are responsible for mapping to each API call that is required to create, update, or delete the infrastructure.

Terraform Cloud also has APIs that can be used to easily manage policies and workspaces.

  • Apply: This is one of the phases in the Terraform life cycle that helps Terraform to perform implementation by accepting planned changes, or to make real changes to the Terraform providers using their resource APIs.
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