May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
436 pages
9h 44m
English
Terraform, when combined with Packer, is an excellent choice. HashiCorp managed to make yet another tool that changes the way we configure and provision servers.
Configuration management tools have as their primary objective the task of making a server always be in the desired state. If a web server stops, it will be started again. If a configuration file is changed, it will be restored. No matter what happens to a server, its desired state will be restored. Except, when there is no fix to the issue. If a hard disk fails, there's nothing configuration management can do.
The problem with configuration management tools is that they were designed to work with physical, not virtual servers. Why would we fix a ...
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