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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

Collaboration and CI/CD


Since Terraform 0.8 it has a built-in support for Vault, a secrets management tool from HashiCorp. It's also a big tool, deserving a book of its own. And it's a great solution in order to solve the sensitive data storage problem for Terraform. Consider learning it and using it.

In Chapter 7, Collaborative Infrastructure, we did not go too deep into details of modern software development workflow. The basics we discussed--code reviews, working through pull requests--are just this: basics. There is a number of well-documented workflows that cover many different situations:

All of them are based on Git though you can achieve similar...