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Getting Started with Terraform
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Getting Started with Terraform

by Kirill Shirinkin
January 2017
Beginner
206 pages
4h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Which tools exist for infrastructure provisioning?

Now, when we have a problem to solve and a list of requirements to the tool that should solve the problem, we can go into specifics of different existing tools.

Scripting

Almost every cloud provider has an API, and if there is an API, you can script it. You could also go beyond single script and develop a small-focused tool just for your company to create environments. Disadvantages are: more software to develop and support in-house.

Configuration management

Most of configuration management tools already have a way to create cloud resources. Chef has Chef provisioning, which allows you to write recipes that define not entities on a single server, but multiple servers and components such as security ...

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