Terraform Cookbook - Second Edition

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Setting Up the Terraform Environment

Before you start writing the Terraform configuration, it’s necessary to understand the best practices to write configuration for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Then, we can install and configure a local development environment. This development environment will allow us to write the Terraform configurations file and apply changes with Terraform.

In the recipes in this chapter, we will start to learn some of the most important IaC and Terraform best practices, then we will learn how to download and install Terraform manually on a Windows machine, as well as how to install it using a script on Windows and Linux. We will also learn how to use Terraform in a Docker container before learning how to upgrade Terraform ...