The Terraform Book

0.1 Who is this book for?

This book is a hands-on introduction to Terraform. The book is for engineers, developers, sysadmins, operations staff, and those with an interest in infrastructure, configuration management, or DevOps. It assumes no prior knowledge of Terraform. If you’re a Terraform guru, you might find some of this book too introductory.

There is an expectation that the reader has basic Unix/Linux skills and is familiar with Git version control, the command line, editing files, installing packages, managing services, and basic networking.

An Amazon Web Services account and a basic understanding of how Amazon Web Services works is also useful. It would be relatively easy, however, to recreate the book’s examples ...