Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code

Brikman, Yevgeniy

ISBN 10: 1491977086 / ISBN 13: 9781491977088

Published by O'Reilly Media, 2017

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Title: Terraform: Up and Running: Writing ...

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Publication Date: 2017

Binding: paperback

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

Terraform has emerged as a key player in the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IAC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. This hands-on book is the fastest way to get up and running with Terraform.

Gruntwork co-founder Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman walks you through dozens of code examples that demonstrate how to use Terraform’s simple, declarative programming language to deploy and manage infrastructure with just a few 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 capable of supporting a massive amount of traffic and a large 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 how it impacts file layout, isolation, and locking
• Create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules
• Try out advanced Terraform syntax to implement loops, if-statements, and zero-downtime deployment
• Use Terraform as a team, including best practices for writing, testing, and versioning Terraform code

About the Author:

Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman loves programming, writing, speaking, traveling, and lifting heavy things. He is the co-founder of Gruntwork, a company that helps startups get up and running on AWS with DevOps best practices and world-class infrastructure. He's also the author of "Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams," a book published by O'Reilly Media that has a 4.9/5.0 rating on Amazon and 4.5/5.0 rating on GoodReads. Previously, he worked as a software engineer at LinkedIn, TripAdvisor, Cisco Systems, and Thomson Financial and got his BS and Masters at Cornell University. For more info, check out ybrikman.com.