Deep-Dive Terraform on Azure: Automated Delivery and Deployment of Azure Solutions

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R. ModiDeep-Dive Terraform on Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7328-9_5

5. Terraform Modules

Ritesh Modi¹  

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India

 

Terraform helps to automate infrastructure management using HCL scripts. HCL, as you know by now, is a declarative-based language comprising resource declaration and configuration. The scripts consist of root configuration and is the starting point of script execution. The root configuration can declare provider specific resources directly or instead they can use modules. Terraform provides modules that are essential building blocks for resources and the overall solution. Modules are Terraform scripts that are sourced ...