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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

Integrating with Azure

As you now know more about Terraform CLI, moving further on, we are going to talk in this section about how you can integrate or authenticate Terraform to Azure using Terraform CLI. In order to provision or update Azure services using Terraform CLI, it is important that your version of the Terraform CLI should be able to talk to Azure. In Chapter 2, Terraform Installation Guide, we already described how you can install terraform.exe on your local machine. So, let's try to understand how Terraform CLI can talk to Azure.

Here are the methods by which you can authenticate your Terraform CLI to Azure:

  • Authentication using the Azure CLI
  • Authentication using a Managed Service Identity (MSI)
  • Authentication using a Service Principal and a Client Certificate
  • Authentication using a Service Principal and a Client Secret

It is difficult to discuss all the possible options relating to Terraform authentication with Azure as there are so many...