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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

Writing Terraform modules for GCP

We now have a fair understanding of writing modules for AWS and Azure. Now, we have a question for you: What are your thoughts regarding Terraform modules for GCP? Will there be any difference as compared to AWS and Azure modules? If you are thinking that writing Terraform modules for GCP would be difficult and different from your previous experience with AWS and Azure, then you are wrong, as you will able to use this previous learning. Let's try to write a module for GCP. To explain this, we have taken a GCP resource named google cloud storage bucket. We have written all the required Terraform code and placed it in our GitHub repository (that is, https://github.com/PacktPublishing/HashiCorp-Infrastructure-Automation-Certification-Guide/tree/master/chapter7/gcp).

Here is a list of files that have been placed under the gcp folder of our GitHub repository:

inmishrar@terraform-lab-vm:~/HashiCorp-Infrastructure-Automation-Certification-Guide...