Getting Started with Terraform

Key Features

• An up-to-date and comprehensive resource on Terraform that lets you quickly and efficiently launch your infrastructure
• Learn how to implement your infrastructure as code and make secure, effective changes to your infrastructure
• Learn to build multi-cloud fault-tolerant systems and simplify the management and orchestration of even the largest scale and most complex cloud infrastructures

Book Description

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.

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
• Manage complete complete infrastructure, starting with a single server and scaling beyond any limits
• Discover a great set of production-ready practices to manage infrastructure
• Set up CI/CD pipelines to test and deliver Terraform stacks
• Construct templates to simplify more complex provisioning tasks

About the Author

Kirill Shirinkin is an IT consultant who focuses on Cloud technologies and DevOps practices. He has worked in companies of different sizes and areas, from an online language learning leader to a major IT provider for the global travel industry and one of the largest management consultancies. He is also a cofounder of online mentorship platform mkdev.me, where he leads a team and teaches his students all about DevOps.

Table of Contents

1. Infrastructure Automation
2. Deploying First Server
3. Resource Dependencies and Modules
4. Storing and Supplying Configuration
5. Connecting with Other Tools
6. Scaling and Updating Infrastructure
7. Collaborative Infrastructure
8. Future of Terraform