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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the Terraform backend configuration, which is used to store the Terraform state file, provisioners, which are mainly used to run some sort of script, and built-in functions, which are used to transform data into the desired form so that it can be used in other code configuration blocks. Moving on, we learned how you can perform different kinds of iteration using for and other loops in Terraform, which are helpful when you are looking to provision multiple resources at a time. Then, finally, we discussed Terraform debugging, where you can set the TF_LOG Terraform environment variable to some log level and store it in the provided destination accordingly by defining the Terraform environment variable, such as TF_LOG_PATH.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the authentication of Terraform to Azure, AWS, and GCP. Moving on, we will also be discussing the use of the Terraform CLI, where we will see how we can run different Terraform workflow...