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Terraform Cookbook

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800207554

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Terraform

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Mikael Krief

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

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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Calling Terraform built-in functions

When provisioning infrastructure or handling resources with Terraform, it is sometimes necessary to use transformations or combinations of elements provided in the Terraform configuration.

For this purpose, the language supplied with Terraform (HCL2) includes functions that are built-in and can be used in any Terraform configuration.

In this recipe, we will discuss how to use built-in functions to apply transformations to code.

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Authors (1)

Mikael Krief

Mikael Krief

Mikael Krief is a DevOps engineer who lives in France. He believes that Infrastructure as Code is a fundamental practice in DevOps culture. He is therefore interested in HashiCorp products and specializes in the use of Terraform. Mikael loves to share his passion through various communities, such as the HashiCorp User Groups. Over the years, he has contributed to many public projects, written various blog posts, published several books, and spoken at leading conferences. For his contributions and passion, he was nominated and selected as a HashiCorp Ambassador since 2019, and he has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for 7 years.

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