12 Automating Terraform
This chapter covers
- Developing a CI/CD pipeline for automating Terraform deployments
- Running Terraform at scale
- Generating Terraform configuration code
- Toggling dynamic blocks with a conditional expression
If you want to know how to automate running Terraform, this chapter is for you. Until now, I have assumed you are deploying Terraform from your local machine. This is a reasonable assumption for individuals and even small teams, as long as you are using a remote-state backend. On the other hand, large teams and organizations with many individual contributors may benefit from automating Terraform.
In chapter 6, we discussed how HashiCorp has two products to automate running Terraform: Terraform Cloud and Terraform ...
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