Terraform: Up and Running, 3rd Edition

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1. Who Should Read This Book
   2. Why I Wrote This Book
   3. What You Will Find in This Book
   4. Changes from the Second Edition to the Third Edition
   5. Changes from the First Edition to the Second Edition
   6. What You Won’t Find in This Book
   7. Open Source Code Examples
   8. Using the Code Examples
   9. Conventions Used in This Book
   10. O’Reilly Online Learning
   11. How to Contact O’Reilly Media
   12. Acknowledgments
2. 1. Why Terraform
   1. The Rise of DevOps
   2. What Is Infrastructure as Code?
      1. Ad Hoc Scripts
      2. Configuration Management Tools
      3. Server Templating Tools
      4. Orchestration Tools
      5. Provisioning Tools
   3. The Benefits of Infrastructure as Code
   4. How Terraform Works
   5. How Terraform Compares to Other IaC Tools
      1. Configuration Management Versus Provisioning
      2. Mutable Infrastructure Versus Immutable Infrastructure
      3. Procedural Language Versus Declarative Language
      4. Master Versus Masterless
      5. Agent Versus Agentless
      6. Large Community Versus Small Community
      7. Mature Versus Cutting Edge
      8. Using Multiple Tools Together
   6. Conclusion
3. 2. Getting Started with Terraform
   1. Setting Up Your AWS Account
   2. Install Terraform
   3. Deploy a Single Server
   4. Deploy a Single Web Server
   5. Deploy a Configurable Web Server
   6. Deploying a Cluster of Web Servers
   7. Deploying a Load Balancer
   8. Cleanup
   9. Conclusion
4. 3. How to Manage Terraform State
   1. What Is Terraform State?
   2. Shared Storage for State Files
   3. Limitations with Terraform’s Backends
   4. Isolating State Files
      1. Isolation via Workspaces
      2. Isolation via File Layout
   5. The terraform_remote_state Data Source
   6. Conclusion
5. 4. How to Create Reusable Infrastructure with Terraform Modules
   1. Module Basics
   2. Module Inputs
   3. Module Locals
   4. Module Outputs
   5. Module Gotchas
      1. File Paths
      2. Inline Blocks
   6. Module Versioning
   7. Conclusion
6. 5. Terraform Tips and Tricks: Loops, If-Statements, Deployment, and Gotchas
   1. Loops
      1. Loops with the count Parameter
      2. Loops with for_each Expressions
      3. Loops with for Expressions
      4. Loops with the for String Directive
   2. Conditionals
      1. Conditionals with the count Parameter
      2. Conditionals with for_each and for Expressions
      3. Conditionals with the if String Directive
   3. Zero-Downtime Deployment
   4. Terraform Gotchas
      1. count and for_each Have Limitations
      2. Zero-Downtime Deployment Has Limitations
      3. Valid Plans Can Fail
      4. Refactoring Can Be Tricky
      5. Eventual Consistency Is Consistent…Eventually
   5. Conclusion
7. 6. Managing Secrets with Terraform
   1. Secret management basics
   2. Secret management tools
      1. Key considerations with secret management tools
      2. A comparison of secret management tools
   3. Using secret management tools with Terraform
      1. Providers
      2. Resources and data sources
      3. State files and plan files
   4. Conclusion
8. 7. Working with Multiple Providers
   1. Working with one provider
      1. What is a provider?
      2. How do you install providers?
      3. How do you use providers?
   2. Working with multiple copies of the same provider
      1. Working with multiple AWS regions
      2. Working with multiple AWS accounts
      3. Creating modules that can work with multiple providers
   3. Working with multiple different providers
      1. Multi-provider and multi-cloud
      2. Multi-provider example: AWS and Kubernetes
   4. Conclusion
9. 8. Production-Grade Terraform Code
   1. Why It Takes So Long to Build Production-Grade Infrastructure
   2. The Production-Grade Infrastructure Checklist
   3. Production-Grade Infrastructure Modules
      1. Small Modules
      2. Composable Modules
      3. Testable Modules
      4. Versioned modules
      5. Beyond Terraform Modules
   4. Conclusion
10. 9. How to Test Terraform Code
    1. Manual Tests
       1. Manual Testing Basics
       2. Cleaning Up After Tests
    2. Automated Tests
       1. Unit Tests
       2. Integration Tests
       3. End-to-End Tests
       4. Other Testing Approaches
    3. Conclusion
11. 10. How to Use Terraform as a Team
    1. Adopting IaC in Your Team
       1. Convince Your Boss
       2. Work Incrementally
       3. Give Your Team the Time to Learn
    2. A Workflow for Deploying Application Code
       1. Use Version Control
       2. Run the Code Locally
       3. Make Code Changes
       4. Submit Changes for Review
       5. Run Automated Tests
       6. Merge and Release
       7. Deploy
    3. A Workflow for Deploying Infrastructure Code
       1. Use Version Control
       2. Run the Code Locally
       3. Make Code Changes
       4. Submit Changes for Review
       5. Run Automated Tests
       6. Merge and Release
       7. Deploy
    4. Putting It All Together
    5. Conclusion
12. A. Recommended Reading
    1. Books
    2. Blogs
    3. Talks
    4. Newsletters
    5. Online Forums
13. About the Author