Overview
- Presents best practices in Terraform and security
- Covers engineering practices for development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of Terraform templates
- Includes case studies
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About this book
The book starts with an introduction to Infrastructure as Code and covers basic concepts, principles, and tools, followed by an overview of Azure and Terraform that shows you how Terraform can be used to provision and manage Azure resources. You will get started writing multiple Terraform scripts and explore its various concepts. Author Ritesh Modi takes a deep dive into Terraform and teaches you about deployment and multiple resource creation using loops. Writing a reusable script using modules is discussed as well as management and administration of secrets, sensitive data, and passwords within Terraform code. You will learn to store and version Terraform scripts and know how Terraform is used in Azure DevOps pipelines. And you will write unit and integration tests for Terraform and learn its best practices. The book also highlights and walks through the Terraform Azure Provider and shows you a simple way to create a new Terraform provider.
After reading this book, you will be able to write quality Terraform scripts that are secure by design, modular, and reusable in Azure.
What Will You Learn
- Understand implementation within infrastructure and application deployments
- Provision resources in Azure using Terraform
- Use unit and integration testing
- Explore concepts such as local vs remote, importing state, workspaces, and backends
Who This Book Is For
Software engineers, DevOps professionals, and technology architects
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ritesh is an architect, a senior evangelist, cloud architect, published author, speaker, and a known leader for his contributions in Blockchain, Ethereum, Datacenter, Azure, bots, cognitive services, DevOps, artificial intelligence, and automation. He has more than a decade of experience in building and deploying enterprise solutions for customers. He has contributed to AzureRM provider multiple times as an open source contribution.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Deep-Dive Terraform on Azure
Book Subtitle: Automated Delivery and Deployment of Azure Solutions
Authors: Ritesh Modi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7328-9
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Ritesh Modi 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-7327-2Published: 28 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-7328-9Published: 27 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 236
Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microsoft and .NET