Appendix D. Using Terraform

Infrastructure as code is not a new concept, but over the years, the tools have changed from scripts and images that are on physical hardware your company owns to tools built to work in the cloud. Kubernetes and serverless platforms have taken the spotlight off of other tools that help build infrastructure within these various cloud environments. There are trade-offs and benefits to all different types of deployments. In this appendix, examples are provided for one last tool to give you a broad overview of the deployment landscape.

D.1 Building the image

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