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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 3: Getting Started with Terraform

In the previous chapter, we discussed the installation of Terraform on your local machine, whether it is Windows, Linux, or macOS. Once you are done with the installation of Terraform, you should be ready to start drafting your configuration code in Terraform and running it locally from your system.

In this chapter, we are going to discuss Terraform plugins, which include providers and provisioners. Here, we will discuss Terraform providers, while in a later chapter, we will discuss Terraform provisioners. Furthermore, we will see how you can take input from users by defining Terraform variables and then, once you have provided variables and your configuration file is ready, you can validate the output using output values. We will even discuss how you can use already existing resources by calling the data block in your configuration code.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Introducing Terraform providers
  • ...