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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 workflows using Azure DevOps

It is very important to understand how we can use Terraform with any continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tool because you know that these days, DevOps is in demand, and almost 90% of companies are using a DevOps approach. So, in order to understand Terraform with CI/CD tools, we will look at Azure DevOps tools.

Let's try to understand how we can keep our code in the Azure Repo and then use Azure Pipelines to perform the deployment of the infrastructure. In our example, we are going to use the Azure cloud platform, but you can use Azure DevOps with other major cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, and so on.

Have a look at the following diagram, which provides an overview of using Terraform with CI/CD workflows:

Figure 6.2 – Terraform with CI/CD workflows image

The following steps show you how to use Azure DevOps Service for infrastructure deployment in Azure using Terraform...