An in-depth guide to everything Terraform, complete with newly established best practices and experienced insights into Infrastructure as Code.

From the back cover:

Terraform in Depth teaches you to effectively create and manage your infrastructure as Terraform code. Inside, you'll find essential insights into modern Terraform, including newly established patterns, best practices, and methods for empowering your development team with IaC. Each chapter is fully illustrated with hands-on examples, such as creating a flexible Terraform module to launch EC2 instances and debugging complex Terraform plans.

Starting with the basics of reading and writing Terraform code, you'll quickly be able to define your infrastructure with Terraform and create reusable instances of your projects. Next, you'll dive into Terraform's advanced functions--including CI/CD pipelines, registries to distribute modules, and utilizing built-in tools for documentation, security, and module quality. Finally, you'll learn the secrets of Terraform code management, including rules for refactoring, testing modules, and advanced module patterns.

About the reader:

For sysadmin and cloud engineers familiar with the CLI.