Terraform for Developers, Second Edition: Essentials of Infrastructure Automation and Provisioning
Language: English
Published by GitforGits, 2024
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- Title
- Terraform for Developers, Second Edition: Essentials of Infrastructure Automation and Provisioning
- Author
- Lee, Kimiko
- Publisher
- GitforGits
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 811917786X
- ISBN 13
- 9788119177868
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
This is the second edition of the Terraform for Developers book, presenting a thoroughly practical approach to using IaC for robust deployment and maintenance. This latest release is the most updated edition on Terraform, with the latest capabilities, patterns, and hands-on applications. Each chapter breaks down complex ideas into easy-to-follow steps, showing how to deal with the real challenges that come up in modern cloud deployments.
You'll start by learning the basics, like providers, variables, and states. It also highlights some really cool modules, showing how to create, reuse, and share them across projects. Later on, it covers secrets management, showing how to store and handle sensitive data safely. It also covers advanced networking and multi-cloud usage, hurdles in bridging subnets, load balancers, and container orchestration frameworks. It also covers troubleshooting across the syntax, logic, and runtime issues that might occur. And it shows how to incorporate testing, from unit checks on modules to integration scenarios for multi-service environments.
The final chapters cover advanced topics such as customizing workflows with CI/CD pipelines and using test environments. This book won't turn you into a Terraform master overnight, but it will show you all the practical features, patterns, and tricks to improve your infrastructure management.
Key Learnings
- Discover how Terraform streamlines resource provisioning.
- Write maintainable modules with confidence.
- Integrate advanced network constructs, subnets, and routing logic across multi-cloud topologies.
- Employ ephemeral credentials with Vault dynamic secrets.
- Automate robust tests, from unit checks to full environment validations.
- Practical debugging steps for syntax, semantic, and runtime errors.
- Adopt CI/CD pipelines to unify code reviews and automated deployments.
- Combine container orchestration solutions with Terraform's consistent state tracking to scale clusters.
- Structure microservices, security, and multi-environment usage.
- Track resource utilization, concurrency, and code maintainability across your stack.
Table of Content
- Introduction to Terraform and IaC
- Getting Started with Terraform
- Essentials of Terraform Configuration Language
- Terraform Modules and Reusable Infrastructure
- Terraform State Management
- Provisioners and Provisioning Resources
- Working with Secrets
- Administering Networks with Terraform
- Advanced Topics in Terraform
- Administering Terraform As Expert
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