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Mastering GitLab 12
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Mastering GitLab 12

by Joost Evertse
August 2019
Beginner
608 pages
16h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Terraform

A useful tool for handling multicloud configurations is Terraform by HashiCorp – the folks that also gave us Vagrant and many other tools. It is a tool that can interact with a lot of APIs that are exposed by cloud providers. You tell Terraform what you want your infrastructure to look like in declarative files, and it takes care of the rest. Before it makes changes to existing infrastructure, it builds a graph of the resources that have already been deployed. It even has a dry run mode (terraform plan) where it calculates and reports the actions it will execute.

Tools such as Terraform enable the Infrastructure as code paradigm. It creates a reproducible infrastructure, and this greatly enhances the DevOps life cycle.

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