Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code

✍ Scribed by Yevgeniy Brikman

• Publisher: O’Reilly Media
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ 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

✦ Subjects

Design & Architecture;Hardware & DIY;Computers & Technology;Networks;Networks, Protocols & APIs;Networking & Cloud Computing;Computers & Technology;Network Administration;Disaster & Recovery;Email Administration;Linux & UNIX Administration;Storage & Retrieval;Windows Administration;Networking & Cloud Computing;Computers & Technology;Cloud Computing;Networking & Cloud Computing;Computers & Technology;Computer Science;Algorithms;Artificial Intelligence;Database Storage & Design;Graphics & Visualiz