Description
Terraform has emerged as a key player within the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IAC) across various cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. This hands-on book is the fastest way to stand up and running with Terraform.
Gruntwork co-founder Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman walks you through dozens of code examples that demonstrate how you can use Terraform’s simple, declarative programming language to deploy and manage infrastructure with only some commands. Whether you’re a novice developer, aspiring DevOps engineer, or veteran sysadmin, this book will take you from Terraform basics to running a full tech stack able to supporting a huge amount of traffic and a big team of developers.
- Compare Terraform to other IAC tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Salt Stack
- Use Terraform to deploy server clusters, load balancers, and databases
- Learn how Terraform manages the state of your infrastructure and the way it impacts file layout, isolation, and locking
- Create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules
- Try out advanced Terraform syntax to enforce loops, if-statements, and zero-downtime deployment
- Use Terraform as a team, including best practices for writing, testing, and versioning Terraform code