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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

Writing Terraform modules for Azure

When learning about Terraform modules, we need to understand how we can draft modules for an Azure Resource Manager (azurerm) provider. This will help you out when starting to create azurerm modules and provisioning resources in Microsoft Azure using these modules. For a further understanding about Terraform modules for Azure, let's try to create a virtual machine (VM) with the keyvault module. We have created all the module Terraform files and placed them in our chapter GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/HashiCorp-Infrastructure-Automation-Certification-Guide/tree/master/chapter7/azurerm/azurerm-virtual-machine-module.

The following files are present in our GitHub repository under the azurerm directory, which you can clone to your local machine and then start consuming it:

inmishrar@terraform-lab-vm:~/HashiCorp-Infrastructure-Automation-Certification-Guide/chapter7/azurerm# tree
.
├── azurerm...