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Terraform Cookbook

You're reading from   Terraform Cookbook Efficiently define, launch, and manage Infrastructure as Code across various cloud platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207554
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mikael Krief Mikael Krief
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Preface 1. Setting Up the Terraform Environment 2. Writing Terraform Configuration FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Dynamic Environments with Terraform 4. Using the Terraform CLI 5. Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules 6. Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform 7. Deep Diving into Terraform 8. Using Terraform Cloud to Improve Collaboration 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

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At the end of all of these steps, we obtain the following directory tree:

To apply this Terraform configuration, you have to navigate in a command terminal to the MyApp folder containing the Terraform configuration and then execute the following Terraform workflow commands:

terraform init
terraform plan -out=app.tfplan
terraform apply app.tfplan

When executing the terraform init command, Terraform will get the module's code and hence integrate its configuration with that of the application, as shown in the following screenshot:

Finally, at the end of the execution of the terraform apply command, the value of the output is displayed in the terminal, as shown in the following screenshot:

Our Terraform configuration has therefore retrieved the output of the module and used it as the output of our main code.

In this recipe, we have shown the basics of the creation of a Terraform module and its local use. In this chapter, we will see how to generate the structure...

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