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Learning DevOps - Second Edition
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Learning DevOps - Second Edition

by Mikael Krief
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
560 pages
10h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2: Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform

In the previous chapter, we introduced the tools, practices, and benefits of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and its impact on DevOps culture. Out of all of the IaC tools that have been mentioned, one that is particularly popular and powerful is Terraform, which is part of the HashiCorp tools suite.

In this chapter, we will explore the basics of using Terraform to provision a cloud infrastructure, using Azure as an example. We will start with an overview of its strengths compared to other IaC tools. We will learn how to install it in both manual mode and automatic mode, and then we will create our first Terraform script to provision an Azure infrastructure with the use of best practices ...

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