HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

Terraform is a highly sought-after technology for orchestrating infrastructure provisioning. This book is a complete reference guide to enhancing your infrastructure automation skills, offering up-to-date coverage of the HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam. This book is written in a clear and practical way with self-assessment questions and mock exams that will help you from a HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam perspective. This book covers end-to-end activities with Terraform, such as installation, writing its configuration file, Terraform modules, backend configurations, data sources, and infrastructure provisioning. You'll also get to grips with complex enterprise infrastructures and discover how to create thousands of resources with a single click. As you advance, you'll get a clear understanding of maintaining infrastructure as code (IaC) in Repo/GitHub, along with learning how to create, modify, and remove infrastructure resources as and when needed. Finally, you'll learn about Terraform Cloud and Enterprise and their enhanced features.
By the end of this book, you'll have a handy, up-to-date desktop reference guide along with everything you need to pass the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate exam with confidence.

Type
ebook
publication date
2021-07-15
what you will learn

Effectively maintain the life cycle of your infrastructure using Terraform 1.0
Reuse Terraform code to provision any cloud infrastructure
Write Terraform modules on multiple cloud providers
Use Terraform workflows with the Azure DevOps pipeline
Write Terraform configuration files for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Discover ways to securely store Terraform state files
Understand Policy as Code using Terraform Sentinel
Gain an overview of Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise

no of pages
350
duration
700
key features
Perform complex enterprise-grade infrastructure deployments using Terraform v1.0, the latest version of Terraform * Learn to scale your infrastructure without introducing added deployment complexities * Understand how to overcome infrastructure deployment challenges
approach
This hands-on guide will help you gain real-world insights on infrastructure provisioning and automation. You will be provided with practical instructions right from the fundamentals of Terraform to maintaining infrastructure as code and managing infrastructure deployments.
audience
This book is for experienced cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, system administrators, and solution architects interested in developing industry-grade skills with Terraform. You will also find this book useful if you want to pass the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate exam. Basic command-line skills and prior knowledge of cloud environments and their services are required before getting started with this book.
short description
Terraform has recently gained in popularity, becoming one of the most widely adopted tools for infrastructure automation. If you're interested in a career in DevOps, this book will be your reference guide to gaining hands-on experience with Terraform from scratch.
subtitle
Pass the Terraform Associate exam and manage IaC to scale across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
keywords
infrastructure as code, infrastructure automation, hashicorp automation, terraform book, terraform 1.0, aws automation, azure automation
Product ISBN
9781800565975