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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By : Ravi Mishra
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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

4.1 (11)
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)
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Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: Core Concepts
10
Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
14
Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary

Integrating with AWS

As we discussed earlier how you can authenticate Terraform to Azure, let's now try to understand how we can authenticate Terraform with AWS. Here are the methods that allow Terraform to get authenticated in AWS:

  • Static credentials
  • Environment variables
  • Shared credentials/configuration file
  • CodeBuild, Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) roles
  • Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance Metadata Service (IMDS), and IMDSv2

For detailed information about how you can authenticate Terraform to AWS, you can visit https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs. Discussing all of the methods is beyond the scope of this book, but we will nevertheless discuss one of the methods and show you how you can provision services in AWS.

Authentication using an access key ID and secret

To authenticate using an access key ID and secret, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to your AWS console...

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