Mastering Terraform

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Learn from Terraform expert Mark Tinderholt to excel in designing and automating infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across major cloud platforms. Key features include building comprehensive end-to-end solutions using VMs, Kubernetes, and Serverless, as well as integrating Terraform with HashiCorp products and tools like Packer, Docker, and Helm. Streamline operations using Gitflow powered by GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. This book adopts a hands-on approach to teach you how to leverage Terraform for efficient cloud infrastructure through real-world scenarios and best practices. It starts with an introduction to Terraform's architecture and the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), covering best practices and architectural patterns for VMs, Docker/Kubernetes, Serverless, and various cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP. Chapters also focus on industrializing CI/CD pipelines by integrating Terraform with popular technologies for building, provisioning, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure. You'll gain insights into security, monitoring, troubleshooting, and cost optimization, preparing you for Terraform Associate certification exams. Ideal for DevOps, cloud, platform, infrastructure engineers, site reliability engineers, developers, and cloud architects, this book requires prior knowledge of cloud architecture and Terraform basics to fully grasp the content.