Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code

About this book

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 Terraforms simple declarative programming language to deploy and manage infrastructure with just a few commands. Whether youre 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