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Terraform 101

This repo has the objective of guiding new terraform users into understanding the basic funcionality of terraform as well as some important basic concepts such as:

• Terraform basic structure and commands
• The terraform provider
• The terraform state
• The terraform remote backend
• The issues of using basic structure in multiple environments
• The concept of terraform modules
  • Local modules
  • Modules hosted in terraform registry / Git repositories
• Keeping code DRY with terragrunt

structure

Each directory has example code related with the topic and a README file with instructions and exercices to do.

Recommended learning resources:

1. https://blog.gruntwork.io/why-we-use-terraform-and-not-chef-puppet-ansible-saltstack-or-cloudformation-7989dad2865c
2. https://blog.gruntwork.io/an-introduction-to-terraform-f17df9c6d180
3. https://blog.gruntwork.io/how-to-manage-terraform-state-28f5697e68fa
4. https://blog.gruntwork.io/how-to-create-reusable-infrastructure-with-terraform-modules-25526d65f73d
5. https://blog.gruntwork.io/terraform-tips-tricks-loops-if-statements-and-gotchas-f739bbae55f9
6. https://blog.gruntwork.io/how-to-use-terraform-as-a-team-251bc1104973
7. https://blog.gruntwork.io/terragrunt-how-to-keep-your-terraform-code-dry-and-maintainable-f61ae06959d8

Yevgeniy Brikman (@brikis89): Terraform up & Running

Tools

terraform.io
terragrunt
tfenv
tgenv
terraform-docs