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Terraform Cookbook

By : Mikael Krief
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Terraform Cookbook

By: Mikael Krief

Overview of this book

HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) has changed how we define and provision a data center infrastructure with the launch of Terraform—one of the most popular and powerful products for building Infrastructure as Code. This practical guide will show you how to leverage HashiCorp's Terraform tool to manage a complex infrastructure with ease. Starting with recipes for setting up the environment, this book will gradually guide you in configuring, provisioning, collaborating, and building a multi-environment architecture. Unlike other books, you’ll also be able to explore recipes with real-world examples to provision your Azure infrastructure with Terraform. Once you’ve covered topics such as Azure Template, Azure CLI, Terraform configuration, and Terragrunt, you’ll delve into manual and automated testing with Terraform configurations. The next set of chapters will show you how to manage a balanced and efficient infrastructure and create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules. Finally, you’ll explore the latest DevOps trends such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and zero-downtime deployments. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to get the most value out of Terraform and manage your infrastructure effectively.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Using a table of key-value variables with maps

So far in this book, we have studied sample code using standard variable types (string, numeric, or Boolean). However, the Terraform language has other types of variables such as lists, maps, tuples, and even more complex object variables.

Among these variable types are maps, which are represented by a collection of key-value elements and are widely used to write dynamic and scalable Terraform configurations.

Maps can have several uses, which are as follows:

  • To put all the properties of a block in a Terraform resource into a single variable

  • To avoid the declaration of several variables of the same type and thus put all the values of these variables in a single variable of the map type

  • To have a key-value reference table of elements that will be used in the Terraform configuration

In this recipe, we will see a simple and practical case of using a map variable to dynamically define all the tags of an Azure resource.

Getting ready

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