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Getting Started with Terraform

By : Kirill Shirinkin
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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

Testing servers with Inspec


Just as your application, code should be covered with unit and integration tests. Infrastructure as Code should have good test coverage as well. There are multiple ways to do infrastructure code tests. They are as follows:

  • Test only the code, without creating a real infrastructure (with tools such as ChefSpec and rspec-puppet)

  • Test a single server

  • Test the complete system

We won't look at the first option to test our infrastructure in this book. For guidance on how to test the complete system (with all the cloud resources, servers, and so on), look at Chapter 7, Collaborative Infrastructure. As for this chapter, let's check one way to test a single server with Terraform and Inspec.

Inspec is a testing framework, written in Ruby. It provides an easy-to-understand DSL that allows you to write human-readable descriptions of what the server should run, which packages it should have, and so on. The only thing Inspec needs is the address of the server. But first things first...