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Terraform in Depth
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Terraform in Depth

by Robert Hafner
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 38m
English
Manning Publications
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8 Continuous delivery and deployment

This chapter covers

  • Publishing modules to private registries
  • Reducing maintenance burdens with semantic versioning
  • Deploying infrastructure
  • Continuous delivery platforms
  • GitOps
  • Terragrunt
  • Secret management

As the software industry has evolved, so have the tools that we use for it. Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) have been so entwined that most people refer to them together as CI/CD, and until recently it was common to use CI systems as delivery and deployment tools. If this book was written 10 years ago, it’s very likely that CI/CD would be a single chapter.

The industry has moved on to the point where it’s recognized that CI is not CD (see figure 8.1). CI systems are focused around ...

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