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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

From this complete chapter, you have gained an understanding of Terraform modules and the different arguments and meta-arguments that are supported by Terraform modules, such as depends_on, providers, source, and version. Moving further on, we also discussed how you can write Terraform modules for Azure, AWS, and GCP. We then discussed how they can be consumed, and finally, we discussed how you can contribute to the Terraform community by writing and publishing your modules to Terraform Registry. With this knowledge, you will be able to draft a Terraform module and consume it for the deployment or manageability of an enterprise infrastructure.

In our next chapter, we are going to discuss Terraform configuration files and which industry best practices can be followed while writing Terraform configuration files, covering all three cloud providers, Azure, AWS, and GCP.