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Getting Started with Terraform - Second Edition

By : Kirill Shirinkin
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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

Integration testing of Terraform modules


In one of the previous chapters on making various tools play well with Terraform, we already took a quick look at running infrastructure tests. Back then we used Inspec to run a test against the single EC2 instance. A few chapters forward, and now we have much more complex Terraform setup on our hands; one that is split across four repositories.

If we were to consider ourselves old-fashioned traditional system administrators, we would be quite happy with what we have achieved by now. But a good software developer (and if we are doing infrastructure as code, then we are already software developers, regardless of our previous experience) would never leave any code without proper tests. And what we wrote in the past is nothing like a proper test.

But what should we test? We must not run tests against the production environment (the one we just configured GitLab CI for), and it is meaningless to test VPC and IAM repositories in isolation. So the only good...