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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

Collaboration and CI/CD


As of 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 deeply into the details of the 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...