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Getting Started with Terraform - Second Edition

By : Kirill Shirinkin
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Book Image

Getting Started with Terraform - Second Edition

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By: Kirill Shirinkin

Overview of this book

Terraform is a tool used to efficiently build, configure, and improve the production infrastructure. It can manage the existing infrastructure as well as create custom in-house solutions. This book shows you when and how to implement infrastructure as a code practices with Terraform. It covers everything necessary to set up the complete management of infrastructure with Terraform, starting with the basics of using providers and resources. It is a comprehensive guide that begins with very small infrastructure templates and takes you all the way to managing complex systems, all using concrete examples that evolve over the course of the book. The book ends with the complete workflow of managing a production infrastructure as code—this is achieved with the help of version control and continuous integration. The readers will also learn how to combine multiple providers in a single template and manage different code bases with many complex modules. It focuses on how to set up continuous integration for the infrastructure code. The readers will be able to use Terraform to build, change, and combine infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Reprovisioning machines with null_resource


null_resource doesn't create anything. It's a container for provisioners. Because it is not directly connected to any piece of the infrastructure, it's not a big deal to destroy it in order to retrigger provisioners it has defined on.

There are two types of provisioning we are doing right now with Puppet: the one-time Puppet installation and Puppet run, which should be retriggered if the manifest changes--imagine that the repository IP changed and somehow we still don't have a proper DNS server in place.

Note

If you have Puppet master, all of it makes zero sense: modules and manifests are stored on the master, and the Puppet agent runs as a system service and applies manifests automatically every N minutes. On the contrary, this approach can be very handy if you decide to go for a masterless setup, because in that case, you have a whole new set of problems of how to distribute your Puppet code to all the servers you have.

Slim down the provisioners...