Getting Started with Terraform

Build, Manage and Improve your infrastructure effortlessly.
About This BookAn up-to-date and comprehensive resource on Terraform that lets you quickly and efficiently launch your infrastructureLearn how to implement your infrastructure as code and make secure, effective changes to your infrastructureLearn to build multi-cloud fault-tolerant systems and simplify the management and orchestration of even the largest scale and most 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 contextualize the examples provided. Basic understanding of Jenkins and Shell scripts will be helpful for the chapters on the production usage of Terraform.
What You Will LearnUnderstand what Infrastructure as Code (IaC) means and why it mattersInstall, configure, and deploy TerraformTake full control of your infrastructure in the form of codeManage complete infrastructure, starting with a single server and scaling beyond any limitsDiscover a great set of production-ready practices to manage infrastructureSet up CI/CD pipelines to test and deliver Terraform stacksConstruct templates to simplify more complex provisioning tasksIn DetailTerraform 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.
Style and approachThis book will help and guide you to implement Terraform in your infrastructure. The readers will start by working on very small infrastructure templates and then slowly move on to manage complex systems, all by using concrete examples that will evolve during the course of the book.