num_pages: 360
description: Terraform has become a key player in the DevOps world for defining launching and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms including AWS Google Cloud Azure and more. This hands-on second edition expanded and thoroughly updated for Terraform version 0.12 and beyond shows you the fastest way to get up and running.Gruntwork cofounder Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman walks you through code examples that demonstrate Terraform's simple declarative programming language for deploying and managing infrastructure with a few commands. Veteran sysadmins DevOps engineers and novice developers will quickly go from Terraform basics to running a full stack that can support a massive amount of traffic and a large team of developers.Explore changes from Terraform 0.9 through 0.12 including backends workspaces and first-class expressionsLearn how to write production-grade Terraform modulesDive into manual and automated testing for Terraform codeCompare Terraform to Chef Puppet Ansible CloudFormation and Salt StackDeploy server clusters load balancers and databasesUse Terraform to manage the state of your infrastructureCreate reusable infrastructure with Terraform modulesUse advanced Terraform syntax to achieve zero-downtime deployment
language: English
title: Terraform: Up & Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code
publisher: O'Reilly Media