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Getting Started with Terraform

By : Kirill Shirinkin
Book Image

Getting Started with Terraform

By: Kirill Shirinkin

Overview of this book

Terraform is a tool used to efficiently build, configure, and improve production infrastructure. It can manage 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 complete management of infrastructure with Terraform, starting with the basics of using providers and resources. This book 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. It finishes with the complete workflow of managing a production infrastructure as code – this is achieved with the help of version control and continuous integration. At the end of this book, you will be familiar with advanced techniques such as multi-provider support and multiple remote modules.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Getting Started with Terraform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Connecting remote states together


Till this moment, we naively stored all of our Terraform code in a single repository. We had a single template responsible for creating a network, routes, virtual machines, security groups, and everything else. It works pretty well, if provided you have a single application with modest infrastructure around it. A single VPC, a few subnets, a small database, and a couple of instances: with this scale, there are few reasons to go beyond the single repository for all the infrastructure templates.

If you are part of a large organization, this approach can get you only so far. Companies that heavily rely on AWS tend to have dozens of use cases for many various services. Only the IAM service has quite a few entities to manage: roles, policies, users, groups, and so on. Normally, there are many roles for different servers and even more policies for these roles. The network is also kind of complicated; at the very least, you would have one VPC per environment or...