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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By : Ravi Mishra
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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By: Ravi Mishra

Overview of this book

Terraform is a highly sought-after technology for orchestrating infrastructure provisioning. This book is a complete reference guide to enhancing your infrastructure automation skills, offering up-to-date coverage of the HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam. This book is written in a clear and practical way with self-assessment questions and mock exams that will help you from a HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam perspective. This book covers end-to-end activities with Terraform, such as installation, writing its configuration file, Terraform modules, backend configurations, data sources, and infrastructure provisioning. You'll also get to grips with complex enterprise infrastructures and discover how to create thousands of resources with a single click. As you advance, you'll get a clear understanding of maintaining infrastructure as code (IaC) in Repo/GitHub, along with learning how to create, modify, and remove infrastructure resources as and when needed. Finally, you'll learn about Terraform Cloud and Enterprise and their enhanced features. By the end of this book, you'll have a handy, up-to-date desktop reference guide along with everything you need to pass the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate exam with confidence.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: Core Concepts
10
Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
14
Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary

Chapter 10: Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise

In our previous chapter, we discussed how we can handle a large-enterprise infrastructure deployment and its updates—and other tasks—using Terraform configuration code. We saw how we can effectively write Terraform modules for major cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Later on in the chapter, we saw how we can club multiple modules together to prepare a composite module also known as a stack. Using that stack, we managed to provision a large-enterprise infrastructure.

In this chapter, we are going to introduce different versions of the Terraform product, such as Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise. We will discuss Terraform Sentinel, which allows you to implement policies as code, and will further see which features are present in Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise as compared to the Terraform command-line interface (Terraform CLI), to give us an...