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GitOps for Infrastructure Automation – Terraform and Flux CD

In this chapter, we explore the powerful synergy between Terraform and Flux CD, two pivotal tools that epitomize the principles of GitOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). As cloud architectures become increasingly complex and dynamic, the need for sophisticated, automated tooling to manage these environments has become critical. Terraform allows users to define and provision cloud infrastructure using a high-level configuration language, creating a blueprint of resources that can be versioned and reused. Complementing this, Flux CD automates the deployment of applications and infrastructure changes by continuously syncing them from Git repositories to Kubernetes clusters. This ...

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