April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
11h 12m
English
As demonstrated previously, Heat is very capable of provisioning almost any resource in OpenStack. Although it has great nesting and template reusability functions, it might become quite complicated to keep a simple and easy way to read infrastructure code when the underlying stack's resources are growing. Additionally, Heat templates are YAML document code based, and are verbose when running different environments for the same underlying infrastructure. You will need at some point to modularize the code per template, which is not obvious in Heat.
In this respect, we will discover a new kind of infrastructure management tool called Terraform. Like Heat, the Terraform tool allows users to orchestrate ...
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