Getting Started with Terraform

Build, combine, and launch infrastructure in a fast, secure, and effective mannerAbout This Book* Get the most up-to-date and comprehensive resource on Terraform that lets you launch your infrastructure in the most fast and efficient manner* Learn how you can implement your infrastructure as code and make changes to your infrastructure in a secure and effective manner* Learn to build multi-cloud fault-tolerant systems and simplify the management and orchestration of even the most large-scale and complex cloud infrastructuresWho This Book Is ForThis book is for developers and operators who already have some exposure to working with infrastructure but want to improve their workflow and introduce infrastructure as a code practice.Knowledge of essential Amazon Web Services components (EC2, VPC, IAM) would help to understand the examples in Terraform. Basic understanding of Jenkins and Shell scripts will be a lot of help for chapters on production usage of Terraform.What you will learn* Understand what "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) means and why it matters* Install, configure, and deploy Terraform* Take full control of your infrastructure in the form of code* Write a configuration to deploy and provision a single server* Discover a great set of production-ready practices to manage infrastructure* Set up a simple Jenkins pipeline to test Terraform stacks* Construct templates to simplify more complex provisioning tasksIn DetailTerraform is an infrastructure provisioning tool used to build, configure, and version infrastructure in a secure and efficient manner. It can manage existing popular as well as custom in-house solutions.The book helps you understand why and how to implement infrastructure as a code practices with Terraform. Everything necessary to set up complete management of infrastructure with Terraform is covered, starting from the basics of using providers and resources.This book is a comprehensive guide that will take you slowly from very small infrastructure templates to managing complex systems, all using concrete examples that evolve over the course of the book. We finish with the complete workflow of managing a production infrastructure as code with the help of version control and continuous integration. At the end of this book, you will get to know advanced techniques such as multi-provider support and multiple remote modules using practical examples.

• | Author: Kirill Shirinkin
• | Publisher: Packt Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jan 31, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 206 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1786465108
• | ISBN-13: 9781786465108