Description
Book SynopsisBeginning-Intermediate user level
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code Chapter Goal: Understand the basics on Infrastructure as Code paradigm and known about its advantages, principles and tools. Understand the need to convert infrastructure into code.
No of pages: 5
Sub -Topics
1. Understanding Configuration Management
2. Understanding Infrastructure as code
3. Principles of Infrastructure as code
4. Benefits and applicability for cloud environments
Chapter 2: Azure and Terraform
Chapter Goal: Get an overview of Azure as enterprise cloud provider with different paradigm like IaaS, PaaS. Different ways to provision resources in Azure. How Terraform fits within the Azure Landscape and how it can be used to provision Azure resources. Understand the high-level architecture and workflow using Terraform
No of pages: 15
Sub - Topics
1. Overview of Azure cloud
2. Overview of Terraform configuration management
3. Terraform workflow for provisioning and de-provisioning of resources
4. Terraform architecture – providers, plugins, resources, repositories
Chapter 3: Getting Started with Terraform Chapter Goal: Getting hand dirty with Terraform, writing multiple terraform scripts exploring different concepts of Terraform.
No of pages: 45
Sub - Topics:
1. Understand Terraform CLI and using various options
2. State Management in Terraform
3. using Resources, providers, outputs
4. Terraform Data types
5. Dependency graphs in Terraform scripts
Chapter 4: Deep Dive into Terraform
Chapter Goal: Understanding the advance features of Terraform both from component as well at script level. Write advance Terraform scripts for conditional deployments, multiple resource creation using loops.
No of pages: 45
Sub - Topics:
1. Backend, state and workspace management in Terraform
2. dynamic provisioning of resources
3. loops, conditional statements – for, for-each, if
4. using Terraform functions – string, collection, encoding, file
Chapter 5: Writing Reusable Modules in Terraform
Chapter Goal: Writing reusable Terraform scripts using modules, storing modules in repositories and consuming them in multiple scripts.
No of pages: 25
1. Basic of Modules, child and parent modules
2. Passing parameters and getting output from modules
3. Using modules from multiple scripts.
Chapter 6: Writing Secure Scripts with Terraform
Chapter Goal: Management and administration of sensitive data, secrets and passwords within Terraform code. Usage of Key vaults for storing of secrets.
No of pages: 20
1. Secure storage of credentials and sensitive information
2. Usage of Managed Identities, certificates, service principles to connect to Azure
3. Storing secrets in Azure Key vault
Chapter 7: Repos, Versioning, CI/CD pipelines for Terraform
Chapter Goal: Overview of storing and versioning of Terraform scripts such that each version can be used in isolation without conflicting with others. Using Terraform CLI in Azure DevOps pipelines to automate the process of deployment of Azure Resources. No of pages: 20
1. Storing Terraform scripts in Azure DevOps
2. Versioning of Terraform modules
3. CICD pipelines for deploying resources on Azure using Terraform
Chapter 8: Writing Unit and Integration Tests for Terraform
Chapter Goal: Testing of Terraform scripts using TerraTest utility. Understanding principles of unit and integrating testing alongside implementing them
No of pages: 20
1. Exploring TerraTest and terra-lint
2. Understanding Unit testing and writing unit tests for Terraform scripts
3. Understanding Integration testing and writing Integration tests for Terraform scripts
Chapter 9: Terraform Best Practices
Chapter Goal: Understanding the best practices of authoring, deploying and managing Terraform scripts in general and in Azure
No of pages: 1
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1. Understanding Terraform Folder structure and deployment structure
2. Writing testable Terraform scripts
3. Writing Maintainable code – usage of variables, no hard-coding etc
